Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua now says that his ouster from the country second second-highest office in the land gave him back a life he had lost.
Gachagua said that Wamunyoro is where he is at his best and where his strategy and planning is done, including his entry into politics.
He equated his return to Wamunyoro village with putting fish back into the water.
The former DP went on to say that he now has time for his family and friends as he gets to spend some quality time with them, as opposed to when he was in office.
“My thinking, planning, my strategy is at its best from here, this is where I was born, all my politics came from here. It’s like taking the fish to water.
“If there is one thing hounding me out of office has done, it is giving me back my life. I am actually making lemonade out of lemons,” Gachagua said on Citizen Digital.
Gachagua laughed off those who planned his impeachment and thought they were punishing him by sending him back to the village.
He said the village embraced him, but they did not know that he would become the government’s biggest headache.
He insisted that he is happy to be home.
“When I was hounded out of office, the people who did it were yapping that they would take me back to the village. One of the leaders in Parliament who led the impeachment called me a villager, and he was right. I come from this village. I came back to the village, and what they did not know is that this village, called Wamunyoro, is the birth of Kenyan politics. Where they sent me back to the village, that village has become a thorn in their flesh.
“Little did they know that the Wamunyoro they were sending me to would become their biggest headache in the next many years. I was happy to come home, and anybody sending me home was not a punishment. How can you be punished yet you are going home?” he posed.
Gachagua said that he has since learnt in greatness he had many friends who left him at his most difficult time.
Out of this, he said, only his family stood with him.
“In greatness, there are many friends, but in difficult times, family is very important. My family has been very instrumental. My immediate family was there for me.”
