As impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua defends himself in court over several governance and political transgressions, it is his agitation for a shareholding in government to favour a section of the country that appears to have rattled many people.

He insists that only voters who supported President Ruto and his Kenya Kwanza coalition in the 2022 presidential polls should get a share of positions in government, and that appears to have put him in a very awkward place after his boss disowned him.

His spirited defence, that his shareholders’ call only amplified the position adopted and signed by the President and other Kenya Kwanza coalition partners, has largely been dismissed by both critics and the President’s supporters.