Friday, August 16, 2024 - Former United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Secretary General, Cleophas Malala, has accused Embu County Governor Cecily Mbarire and Kikuyu Member of Parliament Kimani Ichungwah of being behind the plot to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
Malala, who spoke to the press on
Thursday, barely two weeks after his dramatic ouster as the Secretary-General, blamed his downfall on Kimani Ichung'wa and Cecily Mbarire.
While terming his ouster
'illegal', the outspoken politician alleged that the two, together with other
accomplices, hatched the plot to kick him out first, before pushing for the
impeachment of Gachagua.
"That this coup was plotted
and orchestrated by two senior party officials alongside others within the
party secretariat. These senior officials are Mrs. Cecily Mbarire, and Mr.
Kimani Ichungwa, MP for Kikuyu constituency," stated Gachagua.
"That my ouster by the
above officials had nothing to do with incompetence or my inability to run the
UDA party, but was a well-choreographed script intended to climax with
the impeachment of the Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua."
The former Kakamega Senator
argued that the duo were vexed by his cordial relationship with the deputy
president and his boss and thus choreographed the scheme to remove the
obstacle, which he says would have frustrated the impeachment goal.
"My close and inevitable
working relationship with the deputy president, who is also the UDA deputy
party leader irked them, and when their concerted effort, lobbying, and coercion
to set me against my Deputy Party Leader failed, I was effectively profiled and
labeled an obstacle towards their evil plot and conspiracy to have Rigathi
Gachagua impeached," he stated.
According to Malala, the Kikuyu
MP and the governor wanted to impeach Gachagua to strategically position
themselves politically in the Mt Kenya region come 2027 and 2032.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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