RUTO NAMES RIGATHI GACHAGUA RUNNING MATE: BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER

Deputy President William Samoei Ruto has after lengthy period of soul searching unveiled his running mate. He has settled on Rigathi Gachagua. But who is this man Rigathi Gachagwa? What are his credentials and does he fit the bill considering the transformational leadership that this Country yearns for? Rigathi Gachagua is a former provincial administrator. He is also an astitute business man (so it said) and boasts of billions of shillings locally and in offshore accounts. It is inexplicable how he managed to amass the billions. That's why he is on the radar of anti-graft bodies in Kenya. It is alleged that he made the billions through phony deals including but not limited to supplying of air to a number of counties in Kenya during the onset of devolution. Bungoma County features prominently among those Counties that colluded with Rigathi Gachagua to steal hundreds of millions from the public coffers. It is for this reason that the anti-graft sleuths have frozen Rigathi Gachagua's bank accounts. For Rigathi Gachagwa to be nominated as William Ruto`s running mate, only one thing comes to mind-birds of a feather flock together. It offends all sensibilities to imagine that William Ruto and Rigathi Gachagua will be the drivers of the much hyped bottom-up economy. Tell it to the birds. Remember the fable of wolve in sheep skin? The public needs to be told in no uncertain terms that a transformative leader is a person with vision and passion to achieve great things for the country. Such a person must be a patriotic leader, who, irrespective of age, earnestly seeks to overtly transform the country in to greater heights of socio-political and economic success.  In Kenya`s situation, transformative leadership cannot be associated with persons with dark pasts and who are obviously engaged in empty rhetoric and political expediency. We need patriotic and conscientious leaders who wield the courage and vision, imagination and resolution that will inevitably go to the roots of our problems.