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In what could send critics to wonder why he would not have waited for the charges awaiting him before the National Assembly to be read again today before defending himself through a more legal process, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua last evening began his defense through the court of public opinion.

In a long monologue on television, with little room for questions from assembled journalists, Gachagua insisted that he would not resign and further dismissed the charges in the motion of impeachment against him as ‘a scheme to hound him out of office’. He also dismissed the public participation exercise carried out on Friday and Saturday as ‘a shoddy exercise’.

Gachagua termed the motion tabled by Kibwezi West Mwengi Mutuse which will be discussed today as a scheme to get rid of him through politics of conmanship and betrayal.

Gachagua assured Members of Parliament that he will avail himself before them to defend himself for two hours hoping that they will hear him in silence.

Justifying his statement yesterday, he said the over seven million Kenyans who elected him needed a chance to hear him before parliament.

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