Rigathi Gachagua must stop the sanctimonious charade of being on a holy crusade to save Kenyans. His sudden obsession with sanitising former President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Kenyatta family empire betrays the real game: rehabilitating one corrupt network so it can replace another.
If Gachagua wants to lecture the nation about corruption, greed and betrayal, he should first explain his own meteoric rise to billions. Which factories did he build? Which exports drive his wealth? Which genuine enterprise created the hotels, prime real estate and vast land holdings he controls? Like too many Kenyan politicians, his fortune traces back to proximity to power, strategic tenders and state connections rather than honest enterprise.
His defence of Uhuru is particularly galling.
The Kenyatta administration left Kenya suffocating under unsustainable debt, unresolved Eurobond controversies, rampant state capture and an explosion of connected-family wealth. Ordinary citizens were left holding the bill. President Ruto has made significant efforts to stabilize the economy after inheriting a crisis whose foundation was laid during Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration.
Gachagua’s selective amnesia is strategic. The same man who viciously attacked Uhuru and his family during the 2022 campaigns now poses as their protector and the saviour of Mt Kenya. This is not principled opposition. It is cynical realignment designed to position himself and his allies as the next beneficiaries of state power.
Kenyans are exhausted by politicians who loot while in office, fall out with their partners, then return wearing the costume of reformers. The journey to genuine national salvation cannot be led by someone so obsessively invested in rehabilitating the very empire that contributed to our current predicament.
Gachagua is not fighting Ruto’s greed — he is fighting to regain access to the same system. Kenyans must see through this dangerous theatre.
