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Rigathi Gachagua

Date of Birth: 1965
Place of Birth: Hiriga village, Mathira, Nyeri County, Kenya


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Mountain doesn’t go to Gachagua

The confirmation of Rigathi Gachagua's defenestration as deputy president by the Senate as Africa Confidential went to press has left Mount Kenya and the Gikuyu community weighing up next steps (AC Vol 65 No 20 The deputy takes the fall)...


The deputy takes the fall

Out of 345 seats currently occupied in the National Assembly 293 MPs voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua comfortably above the two-thirds majority needed...


Raila’s exit deal highlights Ruto’s co-option of the opposition

Azimio's titular leader Musyoka is among a group of political kingpins led by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua – also the deputy leader of Ruto's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) – who has effectively been frozen out of government by Ruto...

Trouble on the mountain Exiled from his own government by President William Ruto's deal with Raila Odinga Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is struggling to retain his status as Mount Kenya's political leader (AC Vol 63 No 12 Now the numbers favour Raila Odinga)...


Raila names his price

While Odinga is not personally in government he has become the de facto deputy president confirming the marginalisation of Ruto's official deputy Rigathi Gachagua (AC Vol 65 No 6 It's the politics that counts)...


Ruto struggles to regain control

After dismissing his government with the exception of Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi who also serves as Foreign Minister and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua whose position is protected by the constitution Ruto announced that a week of talks would start on 15 July aimed at forming a ‘broad-based' unity government...

The large number of kidnappings cases of torture and murders of activists are a grisly reminder of the tactics used by former President Daniel arap Moi the political mentor of Ruto and his deputy Rigathi Gachagua under whom dissidents were routinely arrested tortured and killed...


How the fiscal squeeze threatens the patronage machine

Just weeks after the Supreme Court confirmed Ruto as the elected president in September 2022 then Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji withdrew a raft of high-profile corruption cases including one against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua (Dispatches 19/10/22 Freedom for Ruto allies as prosecutors drop corruption cases)...

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One party in a state

Ruto's equally embattled deputy Rigathi Gachagua who has spent recent weeks attempting to cosy up to former President Uhuru Kenyatta to shore up support in the Mount Kenya region may be looking for a new party...


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