Tana River Senator Danson Mungatana filed a censure motion against DP Rigathi Gachagua before the Senate saying his conduct does not befit his office. [File, Standard]

The tribulations facing Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua seemed to increase yesterday after Tana River Senator Danson Mungatana filed a censure motion against him before the Senate saying his conduct does not befit his office.

Mungatana said Gachagua has to be called to order since the last two years that he has been the president’s principal assistant he has not lived up to the requirements, in character, of his office.

He argues that a holder of the office of the second in command in the hierarchy of the national executive is supposed to serve as a symbol of national unity and not a regional champion of community interests.

The Senator said since independence, the country has had many vice president’s but none has come out openly to champion the interests of a particular area like Gachagua has been doing since he assumed the DP’s office.

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