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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua acknowledges greetings from Homabay Residents during the commissioning of the Rusinga Ring Road, Homa Bay County. [DPCS]

They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. This is the peculiar state a cross-section of MPs is facing as the plot to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua gathers momentum.

While some MPs are determined to send Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua home to safeguard their political career in 2027, others are fearing the consequences.

Some MPs, especially from Gachagua’s Mt Kenya home region, blame him for their deteriorating political fortunes on the ‘ground’ where he has demonized them as sellouts, home guards, betrayers and collaborators, a strategy that makes them very unpopular with the electorate.

According to the multiple sources who are pushing for Gachagua’s ouster, the main reason they want him out is to revive their political fortunes in 2027, maintaining that failure to do that is akin to digging their political grave.

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