DCI Implicates Gachagua's Allies In Planning And Financing Gen Z Protests, Recommends Charges

• Two lawmakers and two aides of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua might face charges should the Director of Public Prosecutions heed the DCI call
• The country's top investigator linked the group with the anti-government protests that shook the country months ago
• The accused persons include Embakasi North MP James Gakuya and his Embakasi Central colleague Benjamin Gathiru

A host of people close to Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua might be charged in court after the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) linked them to the protests that shook the country months ago.

The country's top investigative body undertook to establish the figures purported to have a hand in the mass action demonstrations.

Which Gachagua allies are facing charges?

They are mainly accused of mobilising and funding the protesters with an apparent object of blackmailing President William Ruto's government.

The DCI addressed a letter to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) seeking advice as regards the prosecution of the accused people.

The accused are Embakasi North MP James Gakuya, Embakasi Central's Benjamin Gathiru alias Mejja Donk, former Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu (currently working under Gachagua), and former Embakasi West MP George Theuri (working in Gachagua's office).

According to the DCI, the mentioned lawmakers convened in a Nairobi hotel to organise the demonstrations.

They would marshal funds, which would bankroll a section of the protesters who infiltrated the mass action demos engineered by the youth to express disapproval of the Finance Bill 2024.

The aforementioned are also facing accusations of conspiracy to commit a felony, soliciting or inciting others to commit offences and money laundering.

The investigators revealed they were seeking financial data from FRC, Safaricom and banks to trace monetary spending by the accused people at the time the protests were at a fever pitch.

How Gachagua reacted to his allies' charges

The preliminary findings rattled Gachagua, who accused the investigations agency of being used to trouble him with his faction.

According to the deputy president, the charges outlined by the DCI were trumped up to justify his ouster.

He noted that for two months, the state agency had harassed his office staff and MPs perceived to be close to him.

Distancing himself from the accusations of organising protests, Gachagua said the Kenyan citizenry was aware of the issues that birthed the Gen Z revolt in June and the subsequent months.

Proofreading by Otukho Jackson, a multimedia journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke

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