Gachagua Claims Billions Were Stolen from Public Coffers During Uhuru’s Last Days in Office

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua now claims top officials in Uhuru’s government looted billions of shillings from the National Treasury before President William Ruto was sworn in.

The deputy president alleged that Sh16 billion was taken from public coffers in the last days of retired President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration.

According to Gachagua, Ksh10 billion was stolen during the Presidential election petition whereas Ksh 6 billion was stolen two days before the August 9 general election.

“Two days before the elections, they stole Sh6 billion and pretended to sell some shares from Telkom. When there was a case before the Supreme Court, they stole another Sh10 billion purportedly to pay some contractors,” Gachagua noted while speaking at a high-profile meeting with professionals from Nyeri County in Nairobi on Friday, March 3.

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“Money was being brought in cartons at Wilson Airport and flown in choppers to people’s homes. And these are the people now unasikia wanaambiwa kuja andika statement kidogo, anaingia ndege anatoroka. And these people, who are thieves, were calling others thieves. They ripped this country…. They took everything,” Gachagua said.

Moreover, the second in command further blamed the current sorry state of the country’s economy on the former administration’s excessive looting of public funds.

“I said during my inauguration about the country we inherited… some people thought I was being mischievous. We inherited a dilapidated country, the coffers were empty, the stores were empty, not even rats were there because there was nothing to eat,” he said.