Former Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi led a faction of Meru leaders to visit former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua at his Wamunyoro residence, Nyeri County.
The group included former leaders including Maoka Maore of Ntonyiri.
They arrived at the home on Thursday April 24 and were welcomed by Gachagua.
They went into a meeting planning their next moves.
This comes ahead of Gachagua’s much awaited launch of his political party.
It comes shortly after former Meru Governor Peter Munya dismissed claims that he was in talks with President William Ruto.
He said he was not interested in a government’s job saying all his focus was on recapturing the sit of Governor in 2027.
The developments came days after Linturi appeared in a local TV station to denounce his former boss Ruto.
He said Ruto should stop talking about fighting tribalism.
“The President doesn’t believe in constitutionalism. By bringing Raila to the government, this was an affront to the voters. This is the same Raila who made us differ with President Uhuru Kenyatta,” he said.
He said he had has cut ties with President Ruto, declaring he is now scouting for opposition partners ahead of the 2027 elections.
Linturi, who was fired from the Cabinet after the Gen Z protests in June last year, accused the President of not being honest.
He claimed Cabinet Secretaries in the Kenya Kwanza government frequently lack autonomy, particularly during appointments, reinforcing earlier statements from former Attorney General and CS Justin Muturi.
Linturi recalled an instance where an appointment he had made to the Pyrethrum Company of Kenya (PCK) was revoked in a gazette notice without his knowledge.
According to the former CS, he had made the decision to extend the appointment of the director of the parastatal on a Wednesday, but the gazette notice on Friday revoked the appointment. This was despite the CS using his office to confirm to the director that his tenure would be extended.
“Ministers have no power. They do not sign anything. Names are printed on the gazette notice claiming that they made the appointments,” Linturi claimed.
He claimed that some parastatals would have the same ethnic tribe occupying a majority of the seats, like one which had 26 out of 40 employees of the same tribe.
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