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Inside Gachagua's meeting to tame Kuria as fight for Mt Kenya grows

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Trade CS Moses Kuria (left) chats with Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua during a past event. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Even as Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Trade Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria hummed on the string of togetherness and Mt Kenya's region's uncanny abilities to speak with one voice during the funeral of freedom heroine Muthoni Kirima on Friday, The Standard has learnt that covert efforts have existed with intent to tame Trade CS.

That no doubt points to a tussle over who will assume the role of Mt Kenya political kingpin, now that former President Uhuru Kenyatta has been ebbing away politically, leaving a vacuum that has been seeking to be filled - as the saying goes, power abhors a vacuum.

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