Office Issues – Cabinet Secretary Public Service Moses Kuria has claimed that Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua started blackmailing the president the moment he was denied a whopping sh 10 billion which he had demanded.
In a long list of issues currently at hand, Kuria has said the DP wanted the billions to go and use in fixing the economically troubled Mt. Kenya voting bloc amid the high cost of living.
Nonetheless, this was denied by the President, what immediately saw the deputy become angrier at the rest of the team around the president.
“You have lost the trust and friendship of 90% of elected and appointed leaders in the Mt. Kenya region. How can you lead them? When the cost of living was high and there was discontent on the ground, you went to the president and demanded that he give you cash of sh 10 billion to go fix the ground in Mount Kenya. Since it was denied, you now throw tantrums. How would the cash have benefited the people of Mount Kenya?” he went on.
Another aspect of their fallout, according to CS Kuria list of questions, is the fact that he(Gachagua) has been making every appointment meant even for the Ministry; what he has exhausted and now wants to throw tantrums at everyone.
“Since September 2022, you have been receiving the Mt Kenya share of appointments. Even the ones for ministries under the CSs from Mt Kenya. We only learned that we have ‘appointed’ someone from the Kenya Gazette. Now you have exhausted the appointments, and you want us to andamana with you because you are being oppressed”.
Kuria also accused the second in command of fighting him in government including pushing for his removal and subsequent transfer from the lucrative Trade docket to Public Service docket.
The CS also claimed that the DP is now attempting to come up with a splinter political outfit meant to undermine the ruling party.
Speaking a day ago in Nyeri, Gachagua, however, lamented that some junior staff around his boss want to give him instructions.
He told them off saying he only serves two people in this country – his boss William Ruto and the people who elected him to office.
