Rigathi: Have many children who will educate younger siblings

The deputy president said his parents, Nahashon Gachagua and Martha Kirigo, educated two out of the nine children. The remaining seven, he said, were educated by the elder siblings.

"My parents educated Jackson Reriani and the late Nderitu Gachagua (the first Governor of Nyeri County). The rest of us were taken through school by Nderitu and Reriani," he said.

The deputy president, who has two sons, says he "regrets taking family planning advice too far".

"Some of us were not wise when the westerners came and advised us to give birth to fewest children possible. I had two. Looking back, I think I was foolish. When I sit in my big house, I'm usually alone with Pastor Dorcas. When you leave a glass on the table you'd come back after two months and find it on the same spot," he said.