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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]

Did Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua talk himself into trouble that will sink him into political oblivion, or will he seize what also appears to be a lifetime opportunity to cement his place as a Mt Kenya kingpin and the region's kingmaker?

While prosecuting the impeachment motion in parliament on Tuesday morning, Minority Whip Millie Odhiambo Mabona echoed sentiments expressed by a majority of MPs that Gachagua’s loose tongue could have dug his grave and he should therefore have tamed it.

Political pundits however argue that the dividends gained from his fallout with President William Ruto may turn out to be a political treasure that he could never have found had he remained meek and subservient in his position of deputy president.

He was also accused of acquiring land using dubious means but it is also argued that acquiring property across the Mt Kenya region in places like Meru where his mother comes from, Laikipia, Nyandarua, Ngong, Nairobi and other places in the region endears him to people in those localities.

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