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Gachagua's Mt Kenya visits building his local support, boosting image

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua addresses a gathering at Kagumo town, Kirinyaga County on Saturday. [DPCS]

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has made countless political trips amounting to 30 in Mt Kenya region in the last two months, in a strategy aimed at holding his backyard under his grip.

The 30 trips mean that for one month in a row, the second in command has been in his region and this has informed his critics to nickname him a 'villager' and 'tribalist' due to his clarion unity call to his region and his 'one man one vote one-shilling' revenue sharing formular.

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