Gachagua to blame for current political situation, says Savula

Kakamega deputy governor Ayub Savula has said that  Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is to blame for the current political situation in the country.

Addressing the press in his office Wednesday, Savula said that the DP should stop chest-thumping and behaving like a bandit and instead focus on uniting the country.

“The problem in this country emanates from the DP who is busy abusing Azimio leader Raila Odinga and retired president Uhuru Kenyatta.The two leaders have their supporters whom he is annoying by abusing their leaders. After an election you unite the country,” Savula said.

“If you can’t tone down simply shut up. Your continued reckless utterances will burn the country and if the country burns we burn together. I’m happy that president William Ruto has tinned down his talk because he understands the unity of the country is paramount,” he added.

The deputy governor said that Raila has stepped up his resistance against the Kenya Kwanza government because of the constant confrontation by Gachagua.

Raila on Tuesday announced that protests against the high cost of living will be held twice a week starting next week, on Mondays and Thursdays.

He has declared that the electoral agency must open all servers to prove the presidential results, lower the cost of living and accept to involve all players in the reconstituting of the IEBC to end the protest.

Savula at the same time said that Raila was just feeding his supporters hope because there is no way he can match to State House.

He said that the elections are over and the Supreme Court declared the presidential results valid. 

“There is no legal way Raila can occupy state house unless he participates in the next general elections,” he said.

Savula said that the country needs a national conversation on the rising cost of living, adding that this can only be done by leaders with sober minds and not threats and intimidation from both sides.

“We need as leaders to work around the clock to have a national conversation of how to lower the cost of living,” he said.

He said that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may be beaconing if the current political undertones are not tonnes down.

He said that it was saddening a man of the DP stature can refer to the government as a private company. 

He said that all Kenyans have a right to live in Kenya regardless of which political side they supported during the August 9 general elections.