Kirinyaga County Governor Anne Waiguru has come out and done something that very few politicians in Kenya ever do — she has admitted she was wrong.
In a stunning public statement, Waiguru openly apologised for her role in the impeachment of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, confessing that the move was a serious political miscalculation that has badly damaged the government’s relationship with Mt. Kenya — one of the most politically decisive regions in the country.
But what makes her admission truly remarkable is not just the apology itself. It is the details she volunteered alongside it.
Waiguru did not try to distance herself from the process or hide behind parliamentary procedure. She looked the public in the eye and acknowledged that the impeachment was not simply a legislative process that unfolded organically in the National Assembly. It was, by her own admission, a carefully coordinated political operation — one in which she and several other leaders played a very deliberate and active role.
She also acknowledged the human cost of what was done. The impeachment, she said, cut deep into the hearts of Mt. Kenya people, who had seen Gachagua as far more than just a deputy president. To them, he was their loudest voice, their most powerful representative sitting at the very top of government. Taking him down the way they did left the community feeling betrayed, sidelined, and politically orphaned.
And now the bill is coming due.
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