Trodden path: Parallels in fate of Gachagua and VP Karanja

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua during a trek along Mawingu Trail on the slopes of Mt. Kenya. [DPCS]

The script used to fight Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua bears a lot of similarities with the one used when Josephat Njuguna Karanja, the fifth vice president of Kenya, was kicked out of office by President Daniel arap Moi in 1989.

First, MPs from his own Kikuyu community were used as the attack dogs that quickly pounced on Karanja at lightning speed and were very hostile to him both inside and outside Parliament.

They raised all manner of...