Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s support for equitable allocation of revenue and electoral seats to his Mt Kenya backyard has stirred up the hornets’ nest with some community leaders terming his declaration as “theatrics of a desperate political juggler.” Pundits and grassroots community leaders say that the DP was walking a political tightrope in UDA where he was being fought by a team of party leaders from Mt Kenya and was now trying to appease the Kikuyu community to rally behind him. The leaders said Gachagua was under siege from well-oiled political forces in the UDA party coalescing around the Kimani Ichung’wah and Ndindi Nyoro axis.
Former National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) boss turned politician Geoffrey Mwangi says the call by the Deputy President is good and timely. But he quickly adds that Gachagua must incorporate other regions with the same challenges. “We need to have a national dialogue on the same.
The argument for “one-man-one-vote” is simply an application of the principle of political equality. All votes should carry the same weight, it is said, because no justification can be found for singling out certain citizens for preferred treatment,” he adds. Mwangi, who harbours political ambitions, argues that if minorities are worried about the possibility of majority oppression, the remedy lies not in giving them added electoral weight but rather in settled constitutional procedures.
However, former Molo MP Njenga Mungai who was among t.