Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua is set to be arraigned in court on Monday following his arrest on Friday.
Gachagua will reportedly answer charges of money laundering, corruption, and abuse of office, among others.
On Sunday, the first-time MP will spend a third night at Gigiri Police Station where he was booked after hours of interrogation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) detectives.
He was picked from his Nyeri home at around 6:00 am on Friday and driven to DCI headquarters for questioning over an alleged Sh12.5 billion scandal.
Detectives have been investigating the source of Sh12.5 billion wired into Gachagua’s bank accounts between 2013 and 2020.
He is alleged to have used proxies to fraudulently win tenders in various county government, State agencies, and ministries through 22 companies, with him as the sole beneficiary. Gachagua is said to have received the funds through three accounts in Rafiki Micro Finance Bank.
The funds were received from the Ministry of Lands (Kenya Informal Settlements Program), State Department for Special Planning, Ministry of Health, Bungoma County government, Mathira Constituency Development Fund, Nyeri County government, and the National Irrigation Board and are suspected to be proceeds of crime.
Gachagua claims his arrest is politically instigated because of his support for Deputy President William Ruto.
“I want to tell the people of Mathira to ignore the rumors, their MP has not stolen anything, these are just baseless accusations to intimidate me for my political standing,” he said following his arrest.
In a span of 7yrs this man…
In a span of 7yrs this man have made 12.5 billion. Meaning he was making over 1.7 billion a year…wow what an investment! This is how the hustler looks like in Kenya
Hustler thieves my foot! It…
Hustler thieves my foot! It is your money that was being hosed out through 49 phony campaniles formed by DP Ruto! Ruto is a full bred student of Moi’s school of hard corruption and theft!
Have Rigathi spend a whole…
Have Rigathi spend a whole year in jail until the case of settled! You can get DP Ruto to accompany him in the cells! They are both Batman and Robin; the best corruption cartels brothers!
This thief got no shame!…
This thief got no shame! Lock him up!!
There is nothing complicated…
There is nothing complicated here. No mafia or foreign illegal cartels involved. This is our usual dirty home grown corruption that is the domain of the elites in Kenya. You say he was involved in fraudulent tenders in various government and state agencies. I don’t doubt that. But all the government crooks that were conducting those government slimy tenders should be in jail as well. Why has it taken seven years to bring all of them to court including Gachagua? If he won those tenders fraudulently, that means some laws were broken by the tender conductors – Gachagua could not have broken such laws alone. In Kenya, there are thousands of known corruption/criminal activities involving tax payers billions of shillings in the hands of our evil leaders, civil servants, and elites that are kept hush hush to be used only for ransom or political leverage as in this case. This is what you expect in a banana republic such as Kenya. Low IQ greedy-dirty lenders play dirty games, they don not know any better. Welcome to our struggle, any ideas?
THIS IS JUST A TIP OF THE…
THIS IS JUST A TIP OF THE ICEBERG.
LET’S START WITH JOMO KENYATTA, MOI,KIBAKI, UHURU, ALL SENATORS AND GOVERNORS.
LET’S THINK ABOUT THE 2 BILLION KSH STOLEN DAILY IN KENYA.
LET’S START THERE AND GO IN REVERSE.
Rigathi’s case ends on day…
Rigathi’s case ends on day one in court as he stole the billions with his former boss,Muigai Kamau/Ngina who should be accused No.1.Another guy is pointing on shs 1.7b. per year pretending to forget Uhuru leads other thugs in EATING shs 2b. daily belonging to all of you.Only a bloody(as all the elite thugs must be eliminated) revolution will solve Kenyans’ problems.
Stop crying foul Rigathi!…
Stop crying foul Rigathi! You stole people’s money and now you want those same people you stole from to fight for you! Are you demon possessed???? Ati you and Ruto are calling each other brothers in crime! Are you not ashamed of yourself??
Be wary of politicians like…
Be wary of politicians like Rigathi who cry wolf after he has been caught stealing! The guy is all out for himself and no body else! He is now telling that he is being targeted but the fact is when he stole 12 billion shillings, the only person he called to cerebrate was the DP Ruto. This is how these thieves role! But then they invite you to go fight and she’d blood for them to get off the hock! Fortunately Kenyans are beginning to slowly wake up!