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How shareholding mantra became Gachagua's ultimate defeat

When Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was prayed for during a chruch service at MCK All Saints, Kinoru, Meru County. [DPCS]

As impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua defends himself in court over several governance and political transgressions, it is his agitation for a shareholding in government to favour a section of the country that appears to have rattled many people.

He insists that only voters who supported President Ruto and his Kenya Kwanza coalition in the 2022 presidential polls should get a share of positions in government, and that appears to have put him in a very awkward place after his boss disowned him.

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