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Is DP Gachagua speaking himself into infamy?

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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua addressing mourners during the burial of Baringo deputy Governor the Late Charles Kipngok at Solian in Baringo county. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

More often than not, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, of the now viral nickname Riggy G, is in the eye of a storm.

When not lambasting a hapless journalist because the "media" has been unfair to the DP and "perennially misquoted him," he is uttering words that sooner than later will be countered by the parties mentioned.
Barely a month since The Kenya Kwanza ticket was inaugurated, Gachagua has again and again split opinion in his numerous public utterances.

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