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Gachagua's charges similar to those he faced three years ago

That among the reasons Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua faces impeachment is money laundering and the use of his position to award his companies government tenders, is a clear demonstration of the term ‘the more things change, the more they remain the same.’

In a span of two years, the DP has fallen into headwinds with two administrations where he was once an insider and pushed out on claims of acquiring massive wealth by using his influence to bag big money tenders from government.

When the mover of Gachagua’s impeachment motion takes the floor of Parliament to lay down graft allegations against the DP tomorrow, the ‘Truthful Man’ will for the second time, in a span of three years, be defending himself for accumulating wealth amounting to Sh17.2 billion in a questionable manner.

This is because, in the dying weeks of the Uhuru administration in July 2021, the DP who was then MP for Mathira was arrested and dragged to court to defend himself for accumulating Sh12.5 billion in his bank accounts in a span of seven years.

In the motion currently before parliament, Gachagua is accused of acquiring a wealth portfolio spanning hotels to real estate amounting to Sh5.2 billion within just two years. This, according to the impeachment motion is inconsistent with his monthly salary as the deputy president estimated at about Sh1million.