Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has chickened out of his planned meetings in Bomet County.
The series of meetings, which had been sheduled for Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th July, 2023, will now not take place after the DP’s surprise cancellation.
According to the County Government of Bomet, Gachagua was expected to meet the County leadership led by Governor Hilary Barchok to discuss tea, coffee and dairy farming in the area.
However, the meetings collides with the anti-goverment protests being led by former Prime Minister and Azimio La Umoja leader Raila Odinga.
“Due to an unavoidable urgent matter in the DP’s diary… the county will prepare adequately and ensure everything is set before welcoming the Deputy President at a later date to be announced,” stated, stated Barchok.
Additionally, Barchok alluded that the meeting was cancelled because of Azimio protests, urging residents not to turn up for the demonstrations on those particular days.
“Members of the public are urged to go about their daily businesses in building the nation and ignore calls for illegal demonstrations by selfish politicians who are hell-bent on reversing the gains made by the Kenya Kwanza government so far.”
This comes barely a week after Gachagua tough remarks dismissing the Azimio protests.
During last week’s protests, Gachagua’s backyard in Mt. Kenya region was among the 20 Counties across the country that participated in the anti-government demonstrations, raising eyebrows about the Deputy President’s influence in Central Kenya.
This is the second time Gachagua is postponing his engagement in the county.
On Wednesday, July 5, the DP stated he could not make it for the tea reforms meeting to allow the people and leaders of Bomet County a chance to attend the Londiani prayers.
This was after a grisly road accident in Londiani, Kericho County claimed the lives of at least 52 people.
Azimio leaders have announced that they will be staging nationwide protests thrice per week to push the Kenya Kwanza government lower the cost of living.