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Rigathi Gachagua, the ousted deputy president and self-proclaimed Mt Kenya kingpin, has come out guns blazing, claiming that Kenya’s economy is on the brink—because his native Mt Kenya community is pulling the strings.
Speaking in Boston to a crowd of Kikuyu diaspora entrepreneurs, Gachagua alleged that President Ruto’s government has waged a silent war against Mt Kenya businesspeople. As a form of protest, he said, they are withholding investments and even evading taxes.
Gachagua proudly declared that his community—known for its aggressive entrepreneurship and widespread business presence—is the heartbeat of Kenya’s financial engine. “We are in every town in Kenya. We built this economy,” he told the audience. According to him, 80% of the Kenyan diaspora in the U.S. hails from Mt Kenya, a community he says is now deliberately stalling economic participation as a form of political resistance.
The former deputy president accused President Ruto of actively sabotaging the Mt Kenya region. He cited a supposed state-backed plan to flood the area with illicit brews, harass dissenting politicians, and unleash violence on Mt Kenya-owned businesses. Gachagua claimed that the fallout from the protests was not just spontaneous unrest but state-orchestrated punishment aimed at silencing the region.
Gachagua painted a dire picture of an economy in freefall. “People have stopped paying taxes. They’re no longer investing. They are waiting for this government to end,” he said, warning that if the Mt Kenya community continues to withhold its economic muscle, Kenya will collapse. He made it clear: the economic boycott is political, deliberate, and far from over.
President Ruto, for his part, has sharply dismissed Gachagua’s claims as tribal incitement and political manipulation. He challenged the former DP to provide actual evidence for his accusations instead of inflaming tensions. Ruto accused Gachagua of weaponising the economic frustration of Mt Kenya entrepreneurs to boost his own political standing and warned that such ethnicised narratives threaten national stability.
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