Thursday, October 17, 2024 – Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua‘s lawyer Tom Macharia
has urged the Senate to save his client from impeachment.
Making the submission on Wednesday, the lawyer played a clip in which the president
referred to a part of the Mt Kenya electorate as the biggest shareholder in the
current regime.
Macharia sought to justify
Gachagua’s remarks that the government is like a shareholding company, and only
those who elected it deserve services.
But addressing the floor of the
upper house on Thursday, nominated senator Beth Syengo sought to know the
relevance of Ruto’s remarks in the trial sessions.
“To the counsel for the Dp.
Yesterday you played a clip of the president speaking in Murang’a; what was the
purpose, and how does it relate to the saying popularly now, “Kufa dereva,
Kufa Makanga?”Syengo asked
However, in response Tom Macharia
“Our position is the opposite… it is to say Okoa Makanga na Muokoe dereva”
The Kenyan DAILY POST