Govt Agents Tried To Poison Me, I Was Supposed To Be Killed- Gachagua
Gachagua, who insisted that he was still the DP, told Kenyans that he didn't feel safe.
Marvin Chege 
Impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has renewed his attack on the National Intelligence Service (NIS), alleging deliberate attempts by some agents in Nyeri County to poison him.
Addressing the press outside Karen Hospital on Sunday, October 20, Gachagua, who insisted that he was still the DP, told Kenyans that he didn't feel safe. This is after he revealed that his security was withdrawn while he was admitted to hospital.
"I want to tell Kenyans that I don’t feel safe. On 30th August in Kisumu, undercover agents entered my room and bugged it. One of them tried to poison my food but we detected and we were able to escape the scheme," he stated. "I was supposed to be killed through poisoning."
"In Nyeri, another team from NIS (National Intelligence Service) also came and tried to poison food that was meant for me and the Kikuyu Council of Elders. I did report this matter to the NIS and the officers who were assigned to my office I asked them to leave because I felt I was not safe."
Rigathi Gachagua inspecting his farm in Nyeri County on March 29, 2023. /RIGATHI GACHAGUA
However, the two attempts in his view had failed, hence the other solution utilised was an impeachment motion against him which sailed through the National Assembly and the Senate.
Gachagua also revealed that President William Ruto's allies had reached out to Karen Hospital many times inquiring about his condition, however, they were not doing so with caring hearts.
"I hear many of his people were calling here asking whether I'm dead, whether I'll survive or recover. They were celebrating. It is the most unfortunate thing that has ever happened in this country that you can be so vicious to a man who helped him to be President," he went on, affirming that his only crime was telling the truth.
Gachagua then tore into the Head of State for being vicious against him to the point of withdrawing his security while he was hospitalised.
He noted that he had trusted the President well enough not to need a memorandum of understanding like his peers, Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetangula, but the decision ended up costing him.
"I bear no grudge against anybody but I had not seen that in President William Ruto, the man I am seeing is not the one I thought that I knew," Gachagua stated.
"It's unfortunate that while I was in the hospital, my brother and friend, William Ruto, ordered the withdrawal of my security detail. I no longer have any officers assigned to protect me. I never imagined Ruto could be that vicious, especially after I helped him become president. As of today, the Deputy President of Kenya has no security."
Gachagua, therefore, cast doubt on his safety urging that following the withdrawal of his security, President Ruto should bear the full responsibility if anything happened to him.
''I want the people of Kenya to know today that as I go home today, I have no security, and is good that they know that if anything happens to me or my family today, President Ruto must be held to account,'' he added.
