Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua raided the bank accounts of his late brother former Nyeri Governor Nderitu Gachagua and used the funds acquired to buy various properties, the Senate heard Wednesday.
Senior Counsel James Orengo, who led the National Assembly case before the plenary sitting of the Senate, said Gachagua had visited his ailing brother at a London Hospital and made him to sign a will a few days before he died.
He said fellow executors of the deceased’s will Njoroge Regeru and Mwai Mathenge had raised objections in the manner in which he was conducting himself as far as handling of his late brother’s properties was concerned.
“In February 2017, the Deputy President traveled to London and went to the bedside of his sick brother where he made him sign a will and did not even speak to his doctors, in fact by the time the former Governor died, he was already withdrawing money from his accounts,” said Orengo.
Counsel for the Deputy President Elisha Ongoya rebutted Orengo’s claims stating that the Deputy President needed to be treated with common decency. Ongoya said the matter raised was meant to whip up Senators’ emotions as they discharge their constitutional mandate.
“The constitution expects the mover of the motion to make allegations and supply credible evidence of any extreme wrongdoing, the motion before you has fallen short of expectations with the material before you not sufficient, there is no name of proxies, no affidavits or complaints by agencies to the Senate,” said Ongoya.
