Gachagua interview was to gain sympathy – CS Duale

Environment Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale now says that Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s Monday night interview was a decoy to help him get sympathy from the public over his impending impeachment.

According to Duale, the interview had falsehood presented as Gachagua’s defence.

“Anyone who took time to go through the Special Motion and evidence tabled last week in the National Assembly, can tell the interview was just a decoy to play in the public gallery, invite sympathy and invoke emotions. Simply put, it was bare falsehoods coloured as a Defence,” he said.

Duale told off the Deputy President for claiming that he was elected by 7.2million Kenyans when he was nominated to vie with President William Ruto.

He said the DP exhibited lack of respect for the person that nominated him to be his running mate.

“Quite unfortunate to see a person who became Deputy President as a result of being nominated by the President as a running mate, chest thump that he was elected by 7.2 million Kenyans with no respect whatsoever for the nominating authority.”

The CS insisted that the truth will be known on Tuesday and that the process cannot be reversed.

“Despite the show this evening, tomorrow we will know in black and white the truth… The die is cast and the process cannot be stopped by threats and interviews iced with falsehoods.”

On Monday, Gachagua held a two-hour national address over the events of the past few days that saw a motion presented in parliament for his impeachment.