“That’s land grabbing!”- Kenya Kwanza tells off Gachagua

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua at a past event. PHOTO: Courtesy

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has found himself on the receiving end in what appears to be a friendly fire.

This comes after Gachagua on Saturday ordered farming activities to resume in Mau Forest.

Speaking at a funeral in Baringo county, the DP argued that the move will help in alleviating food crisis.

“This is your government.” He said, adding, “we have ordered you to carry out farming in the forest to increase food production.”

However, his outbursts have attracted criticism from his Kenya Kwanza allies, among them Kakamega Senator Dr. Boni Khalwale.

“I’m the Senator of Kakamega, home to Kakamega Forest, the only remaining indigenous tropical rainforest outside the Congo of DRC and the Amazon of Brazil.” Khalwale declared.

“I would find it extremely difficult to disagree with Prof Wangari Maathai.” He added.

Prof. Wangari Maathai was an environmentalist and a 2003 Peace Prize Nobelist.

Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi, a fierce supporter of Kenya Kwanza, also differed sharply with Gachagua’s order.

He says that amounts to land grabbing.

“Farming in gazetted forest land is grabbing.” He wrote on Twitter.

Earlier, a self-proclaimed general Miguna Miguna, hit out at Gachagua, terming his order as a “roadside declaration.”

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