Gachagua Unveils Secrets Behind Massive Ksh12B Scandal
On Monday, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua disclosed that an unidentified judge prevented him from receiving a 50-year imprisonment sentence.
While addressing the New Year celebrations at Nyeri Maximum Security Prison, Gachagua mentioned that the former government had devised a malicious scheme to take away his wealth totaling Ksh12.4 billion, and imprison him.
Specifically, he accused George Kinoti, the former head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
“Kinoti was a very notorious man but we have since forgiven him. He trumped up charges against me claiming that my Ksh12.4 billion was from criminal proceedings,” Gachagua narrated to prison inmates.
“They put a gun on the magistrate’s head so that he can jail me for 50 years.”
DP Gachagua stated that the magistrate chose to delay the case upon recognizing that the Member of Parliament for Mathira at the time was being wrongly accused.
Gachagua mentioned that due to the judge’s belief that it was a politically motivated persecution, the case was delayed until after the September 2022 national election.
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The Deputy President claimed that Kinoti couldn’t provide evidence to support the whereabouts of the missing Ksh12.4 billion.
“He said I should be jailed first so that I can appeal afterward,” the DP stated.
Gachagua commented that the decision to delay the case had the backing of both the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and detectives from DCI because they were aware that the accusations were fabricated.
In November 2023, DP Rigathi Gachagua stated that the Ksh12.4 billion issue originated from a misunderstanding of his accumulated bank balance by a corporal from the National Police Service.
“I had put some money in a microfinance bank for eight years so I was living on the interest, Ksh1.9 million,” he stated then.
“That movement back and forth, a corporal said I had Ksh800 million every year coming to my account and so they calculated it with 8 years and said I had received Ksh12.4 billion.”
Gachagua Unveils Secrets Behind Massive Ksh12B Scandal
