Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has begged pardon from his wife Pastor Dorcas Rigathi and his two children Kevin and Keith Rigathi ahead of the impeachment hearing at the National Assembly on Tuesday, October 8, 2024.
The Second in Command who attended a rather small church service at the National Prayer Altar in Karen, Nairobi on Sunday, October 6, 2024, asked his wife and children to accept his apologies after their names were dragged into the latest political battle pushing for his ouster.
He expressed sadness that their lives had been widely opened and exposed for public scrutiny insisting that it was for no good reason.
Gachagua told them that it was not his intention that their privacy would be defiled in such a manner.
“My wife pastor and the children, I want to apologise as that as a politician, your names are everywhere for no reason. Your privacy has been defiled as a fight my political battles,” Gachagua said in a soft tone.
“I want to apologise but there is nothing you can do because you got married to a politician,” he added.
His late brother
Gachagua also regretted how his late brother Nderitu Gachagua was sucked into his political fights. He told the few congregants who attended the service that his late brother’s will which was drafted in privacy had been made public.
DP Gachagua wished that the people pursuing him could leave his late brother to rest in peace instead of entangling him in the latest political process seeking to eject him from office.
“I am very pained that my late brother Governor Nderitu Gachagua, a good man who worked very hard for his family and died eight years ago, his will that he made it in privacy is the newspaper.
“His property that he worked very hard to leave for his family are everywhere in the newspaper. I wish those who pursue would just pursue me and allow my late brother to rest in peace,” Gachagua stated.
Apologise to Ruto
At the same time, Gachagua asked President William Ruto to find it in his heart to forgive him if he wronged him in any way.
He extended the same olive branch to MPs and the citizenry.
“To my brother President William Ruto, if in our zeal to work I have wronged you, please find it in your heart to forgive me. If my spouse in her duties for the boychild and her programme has wronged you in any way, find it in your heart to forgive her.
“To our members of parliament if in the course of duty through our utterances and actions we have in one way or another upset you or wronged you, find it in your heart to forgive me,” Gachagua pleaded.
“If our brothers who did not support the president and myself in the way my region and Rift Valley supported him, and probably you find in appreciating our people and our utterances made you feel uncomfortable, we did not mean bad but simply appreciating the people who voted for us,” he also asked the opposition leaders.
