{"id":99813,"date":"2024-10-20T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/20\/gachagua-says-he-dropped-nis-after-2-poisoning-attempts\/"},"modified":"2024-10-20T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T14:03:33","slug":"gachagua-says-he-dropped-nis-after-2-poisoning-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/gachagua-says-he-dropped-nis-after-2-poisoning-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"Gachagua says he dropped NIS after 2 poisoning attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 20<\/strong> \u2013 Rigathi Gachagua has made shocking claims linking the National Intelligence Service (NIS) to an attempt to assassinate him on two occasions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking from Karen Hospital in Nairobi, Gachagua shed light on what he described as a deliberate effort by the country\u2019s spy agency to eliminate him through poisoning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to tell the people of Kenya that I do not feel safe,\u201d Gachagua stated.<\/p>\n

He recounted the first incident, which reportedly occurred on August 30 in Kisumu, where undercover security agents allegedly entered his hotel room.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey bugged my room, and one of them tried to poison my food, but we detected it and escaped the scheme,\u201d he claimed. \u201cI was supposed to be killed through poisoning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gachagua further alleged a second attempt on his life just days later, on September 30 in Nyeri, during a meeting with the Kikuyu Council of Elders.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother team from the National Intelligence Service tried to poison food meant for me and the elders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter these two attempts, I reported the matter to NIS and asked the officers assigned to me to leave because I did not feel safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gachagua who is fighting his removal as Deputy President in court claimedt his impeachment finalised on Thursday followed the failed assassination attempts.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the two attempts to assassinate me failed, that is when this impeachment motion was hatched,\u201d Gachagua asserted.<\/p>\n

He also said that the withdrawal of his security detail while in the hospital has left him vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Gachagua told reportters NIS officers lurked around the hospital during his time there.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers from the NIS have been hovering in every room, in every compound here,\u201d Gachagua said, noting that he had to call his wife and children to stay in his hospital room out of fear for his safety.<\/p>\n

Expressing frustration and disappointment, Gachagua made a personal plea to President William Ruto: \u201cI helped you become president. Leave me and my children alone. Do whatever you want, but let me live, let me look after my children.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also accused the President of orchestrating his downfall and likened his situation to that of the late politician Kenneth Matiba, who suffered a stroke after enduring political persecution under the Moi regime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president wants to take me down the same path President Daniel Arap Moi took with Kenneth Matiba. He pushed Matiba to the point of getting a stroke and eventually dying,\u201d Gachagua claimed, expressing fear that Ruto was similarly trying to \u201ccripple\u201d him.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Gachagua lamented the apparent eagerness of some government officials to see him incapacitated or dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hear many of his people were calling here [in the hospital], asking whether I was dead, whether I would survive, whether I would recover. They were celebrating. It\u2019s the most unfortunate thing that has ever happened in this country.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 20 \u2013 Rigathi Gachagua has made shocking claims linking the National Intelligence Service (NIS) to an attempt to assassinate him on two occasions. Speaking from Karen Hospital in Nairobi, Gachagua shed light on what he described as a deliberate effort by the country\u2019s spy agency to eliminate him through poisoning. \u201cI want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}