Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has sympathized with President William Ruto over the recent chaos surrounding Finance Bill 2024.
Gachagua has said that Ruto was not properly informed about the views of the people and would otherwise not have pushed for the bill.
Additionally, he has called for the resignation of the police bosses including National Intelligence Service (NIS) boss Noordin Haji.
“Honesty and truth are critical components of leadership. We have lost lives, property destroyed, anarchy, uncertainty, how did we get here. We were just elected the other day as a very popular government.
“Where did we stop listening to the people. President Ruto and I were the darling of the Kenyan people.
“We invest in the National Intelligence Service (NIS) for this service, it is clear that there has been a failure in the intelligence and advise we are receiving about crucial government policies,” lamented Gachagua.
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Gachagua Rants About NIS
The DP said that the NIS was dysfunctional and did not inform Ruto on time to allow him to take action.
According to Gachagua, the intelligence service had failed in executing its duty and therefore failed the people of Kenya and embarrassed the head of state.
“The president has admitted that it has come to his attention that the people of Kenya did not want anything to do with Finance Bill 2024 and I sympathize with him because this information was not available to him.
“I know President Ruto, had he had known this two months ago, he would not have asked his parliamentary party to push it through. And that is where the problem is,
“We have a dysfunctional national intelligent service that has exposed the president, the government and the people of Kenya. Had the NIS briefed the president about how the people feel about the Finance Bill 2024, people would not have died, property would not have been destroyed, offices would not have been torched.
“But they slept on the job. It had to take people to die and protests across the country for the president to know what the people of Kenya feel,” added Gachagua.
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How Police Were Blind Sided
At the same time, Gachagua has revealed that police officers told him confidentially, that they were not given any brief on the intensity of the protests across the country including Eldoret, Githurai, Kericho, Nyeri and other areas.
Therefore, the NIS left “a clueless director general to run the organization” causing the chaos to escalate.
“Noordin Haji must take responsibility for the deaths that occurred, the mayhem and failing President Ruto. He must do the honorable thing to resign from that office,” the DP said.
Gachagua also said that Haji had no capacity to run the service because he was out of the country most of the time, leaving Ruto exposed.
Also, he asked Ruto to recall three directors who had been removed from the service when Haji took over office to help restructure the office.
“Senior officers have told me in confidence that they did not have advance intelligence or briefed about the intensity of the protest so that they prepare in advance.
“The problem is simple, the director general Noordin Haji was a junior officer in the NIS, before he was appointed as DPP. When he was appointed, because of inferiority complex, he chased away all the people who were senior to him therefore crippling the capacity of that service,” Gachagua explained.
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