Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has sustained an onslaught against Former President Uhuru Kenyatta accusing him of meddling with the affairs of their administration.
In yet another attack on Uhuru, Gachagua, without mentioning name, reiterated that the country is in a big mess because of Uhuru's leadership.
He, for that reason, told of the former president for purporting to direct the current regime of President William Ruto on what to do.
“I want to say that we are not sleeping, we are working, and we are working on practical programs. I have heard some people say that we are not working we are just talking, this is work, real work, this is good work and practical intervention.”
“Those who are saying that there is no work going on are the ones who tempered with the economy of the country and loot the country’s wealth, took some out of the country now they are talking. If those people had not sabotaged this program of subsidizing fertilizer, this country would not be where we are, it was a political thing and that is wrong,” he said.
The DP spoke on Friday at the Mombasa railway terminus where he flagged off the tonnes of fertilisers availed to help farmers boost their productivity.
“People are working day and night to make interventions to bring the cost of food down and they’re here trying to introduce politics of telling people how they should work. They have no business telling us how to work."
"They had their own opportunity to work and they brought this country to its knees economically, let them give us time and see how we build this economy through practical interventions of increasing production in agriculture," he added.
Gachagua said the current administration is focused on reducing the cost of living.
He assured farmers that fertilisers will reach them by mid-March, a move he said will boost the production of food and in the end, reduce the cost of living.
Gachagua said that the government has identified increased production as the practical strategy to bring down the cost of food and ultimately the cost of living.
He said that ‘they’ thought that if they stole the fertilizer subsidy, they will punish William Ruto because he come from where maize is produced but in the process, they punished farmers, production came down from 30 bags to 10 bags.
“Those people have no more authority to tell us anything about work, I want to give a commitment on behalf of the government that this price of maize floor, we are going to bring it down.”
“So far we have brought it down to about 190 and in another few months, it will be 140 going downwards and ultimately, we will be able to bring this cost to 100 shillings and that is real interventions,” he said.
