Former Deputy President and DCP party leader Rigathi Gachagua has made fresh and serious allegations, claiming there is a secret plan within the government to arrest Auditor General Nancy Gathungu.
Speaking on Friday, July 31, during a meeting with Maasai leaders and supporters at his Wamunyoro residence, Gachagua said he had received insider information from sources within the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) that efforts were underway to find grounds to prosecute the Auditor General.
Gachagua went further, directly naming President William Ruto in the alleged plot. He claimed that officers from the DCI had reached out to him, expressing concern over what he described as attempts to target an independent constitutional office.
"As we speak, sources today at the DCI have reached out to me and told me that Kasongo (the President) has said that the Auditor General Nancy Gathungu should be fished for evidence against her because she is bringing to light all that theft within the government," Gachagua claimed.
He added that he had information that the President had directed the DCI Director to look for grounds to have her arrested.
According to the former Deputy President, Gathungu has fallen out of favour with senior government officials because of audit reports and opinions issued by her office on the implementation of key Kenya Kwanza administration programmes.
Gachagua alleged that security officers from the DCI and the National Intelligence Service (NIS) wanted him to make the claims public so that Kenyans would be aware should any action be taken against her.
He argued that the Auditor General was simply carrying out her constitutional mandate of overseeing public expenditure and exposing possible theft of public resources.
He further claimed that some officers within the DCI were unhappy with what he described as political interference in their work, and that there was growing dissatisfaction within the civil service, the National Police Service and the NIS. Gachagua urged President Ruto to abandon the alleged plan.
However, the allegations could not be independently verified by this publication. Neither the Office of the Auditor General, the DCI nor the National Police Service had responded to Gachagua's claims by the time of publication.
These remarks came barely a day after Gachagua claimed he had prior knowledge of the contents of President Ruto's State of the Nation Address before it was delivered at State House.
Among the issues Gachagua said would feature prominently was the launch of a new national vision, a proposal that President Ruto later announced would be the subject of a national conversation.
Responding to those claims on Friday, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen dismissed suggestions that Gachagua had obtained confidential government information, saying discussions on the country's future had involved Cabinet and technical teams over several weeks and were never a secret.
"I saw someone claiming that he had prior knowledge of what the President was going to say. I want to tell you that there is no secret about Kenya's future.
The President had already met the technical team entrusted with this assignment, as well as Cabinet members, over the past few weeks. Therefore, there was nothing secret about what he was going to say," Murkomen said.
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