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Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has near the state for the United States.
Speaking astatine a property league aboriginal Tuesday, July 9, Gachagua said his travel was intended to little Kenyans overseas connected the authorities of the federation pursuing the caller Saba Saba demonstrations, which near respective radical dead, dozens injured, and wide demolition successful their wake.
“Tonight, I shall beryllium travelling to the U.S. to speech to Kenyans successful the diaspora and the planetary assemblage astir the authorities of the nation,” Gachagua told reporters. “I would person wanted to enactment successful the state astatine this precise hard clip erstwhile our radical are nether siege, but I person engagements that I’m not capable to postpone.”
Gachagua, who present leads the Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP), besides claimed unnamed individuals connected to President William Ruto had threatened to artifact his departure.
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“I person been threatened by radical adjacent to Ruto that they volition forestall maine from leaving,” helium alleged.
The erstwhile DP’s U.S. travel would person marked his archetypal overseas circuit since his ouster successful October 2024.
Gachagua US Tour
Gachagua, present astatine the helm of the Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP), is acceptable to sojourn aggregate U.S. cities betwixt July and August.
Throughout his visit, helium plans to prosecute with Kenyans surviving overseas done a bid of municipality hallway meetings and assemblage events, wherever he’ll stock his imaginativeness and question to rally enactment from the diaspora.
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In summation to these gatherings, the erstwhile lawman president is slated to conscionable with a prime radical of American entrepreneurs and investors, arsenic portion of his broader strategy to contiguous the absorption arsenic a compelling prime up of the 2027 elections.
Gachagua’s sojourn follows intimately connected the heels of Matiang’i’s caller planetary outreach, which kicked disconnected his 2027 statesmanlike campaign. Matiang’i began his diaspora circuit successful Texas, hosting a municipality hallway lawsuit successful Irving implicit the weekend.
Held astatine DFW Celebrations, the gathering attracted a vibrant and divers radical of Kenyans from the Dallas–Fort Worth region.
Attendees came retired successful ample numbers, keen to perceive his proposals and recognize however the diaspora mightiness play a relation successful shaping Kenya’s governmental future.
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Former Dp Rigathi Gachagua. Photo/ Rigathi Gachagua
