Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. [DPCS]

The threat of impeachment against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, which began in hushed tones, has now blown into a full debate, eliciting reactions from a cross-section of leaders where the common thread is little sympathy for the DP.

Central Organisation of Trade Unions—Kenya (COTU-K) Secretary General, Francis Atwoli, yesterday accused Gachagua of not only being in campaign mode but misleading the country by contradicting government policies and the president.

"You cannot be contradicting government policies, contradicting your own president. A deputy president is supposed to play cool, not even to be heard unless he has been told you will be heard now," said Atwoli.

"Deputy president should be an appointee of the president, not a running mate. Because when he becomes a running mate, he thinks he is also a president. They have a cabinet. They have their national security committee meeting chaired by the president. He has access to State House, has the president's telephone. Let him not contradict his boss in public, those are bad manners," he uttered.

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