Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua has said he is being harassed and intimidated by ‘the system’ over his firm stand on the 2022 succession.
The MP claimed on his social media that he was also being targeted for articulating the concerns of the community over poor tea, milk and coffee prices and the collapse of businesses.
The staunch supporter of Deputy President William Ruto’ s 2022 State House bid alleged that two months ago he was threatened by a top adviser in government to toe the line or face the music.
He did not name the advisor.
Late last week, the MP’s three accounts at Rafiki Microfinance Bank were frozen. Senior resident magistrate Muthoni Nzibe issued the order for the next seven days after the Asset Recovery Agency moved to court and applied to have them frozen on suspicions of money laundering.
“For the last two months, officers from DCI have been all over the country in every government department where I have done business for the last ten years looking for evidence that could take me to court,” he noted.
The MP said they also illegally obtained his bank statements from Equity, which they have been using to trace anyone who has done business with him for the same period.
Gachagua said his friends and business partners were being summoned, intimidated and threatened to incriminate him in wrongdoing but they have refused.
The MP from the Tangatanga wing of Jubilee said government officers who dealt with any of his companies or those of his partners and friends were being threatened to disown the processes.
“I would like to assure my constituents that I am an astute businessman who has worked very hard for the last 20 years and will account for every cent that I have,” he said.
Gachagua said he believed in the UhuRuto dream and would support the President and his deputy to the last day.
Edited by Henry Makori
