Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has dismissed remarks by former president Uhuru Kenyatta claiming that leaders are working while consistently looking at the rearview mirror.
Speaking during the opening of a Joint National Executive and Kenya Kwanza Parliamentary Group consultative meeting in Naivasha, Gachagua urged the president to keep looking at the rearview mirror.
"I heard somebody saying that you shouldn't look at the rear mirror. I want to encourage you to keep looking at the rear mirror because the inventor of the motor vehicle was not mad by putting the mirror there," the Deputy President said.
"Continue looking at the rear mirror to ensure that no Kenyan is left behind."
Gachagua highlighted that it is important for all Kenyans to be carried on board as the government moves hence the need for leaders to use the rearview mirror.
Speaking on Saturday during the memorial service of Mama Lucy Wanjiru Muhinga at the Foothills School in Kipipiri, Nyandarua, Uhuru said leaders who focus on the past will not take the country anywhere.
He insisted that only leaders who have visions can provide solutions to the challenges Kenyans are experiencing.
"Kenya is home. We wish those who are there well but when I was in leadership I used to tell people one thing, if you are a leader you have been given a steering wheel to drive if it is Nyandarua, if it is this constituency, if it is Kenya or anywhere. A good leader holds the steering wheel and looks ahead, not every time looking at the rearview to see where they have come from," Uhuru said.
"You look ahead. If you are a person driving a car looking at the rearview, you are a person who drives the car into a ditch. You are going nowhere. You are taking the country nowhere. The country needs leaders who have vision because that is what will be useful to solve the problems Kenyans are facing," Uhuru said.
