Monday, November 4, 2024Â – Impeached
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s attempt to be interviewed live for his Mt
Kenya stronghold on Sunday night collapsed at the last minute after two Kikuyu TV
stations declined to interview him at his Mathira home.
According to sources, Gachagua had initially
requested to be interviewed by the Royal Media Services (RMS) owned Inooro TV.
The planned interview however collapsed at
the last minute after RMS chairman SK Macharia vetoed the idea.
Gachagua had told his supporters that he
would grace an interview on the popular Kiririmbi Show hosted on Inooro TV on
Sunday night when he attended a burial in Kirinyaga on Saturday.
After Inooro TV declined to interview him, he
approached Kameme TV.
This plan also failed after the Kenyatta
family which owns Media Max Limited, the operator of Kameme TV insisted that
the former DP had to show up at the Kameme TV studios along Kijabe Street in
Nairobi if he wanted the interview to take place.
Gachagua, who had gotten used to media crew
coming to his residence whenever they wanted an interview when he was DP could
not believe that he was being asked to drive from his Mathira home in Nyeri to
a television studio 200 kilometres away in Nairobi.
Consequently, the interview
collapsed as a result of the standoff.
Gachagua has since last
Friday been spending time at his Mathira home where he retreated to on the eve
of Prof Kithure Kindiki’s swearing-in as Deputy President.
The Kenyan DAILY POST.
