DCP leader Rigathi Gachagua and delegates from Isiolo and Marsabit at Wamunyoro, Nyeri County on August 25, 2026. [Ali Abdi, Standard]
Democracy for Citizen Party (DCP) Leader Rigathi Gachagua has accused Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale of allegedly doing nothing for pastoralist communities in the country.
Mr Gachagua said Duale, while being the only CS from northern Kenya and claiming to be the spokesperson of the group, had instead been a liability to pastoralists.
“You, the Borana who are here, along with the Turkana and Somali, are all complaining like other Kenyans. You suffer from runaway insecurity and widespread underdevelopment. We must join hands to vote out this rogue government (in next year's general election),” the former Deputy President told a delegation of grassroots leaders and residents from Isiolo and Marsabit who paid him a courtesy call at his Wamunyoro rural home in Nyeri.
“Duale thinks that the pastoralists are his property, his children or servants. What has he done for the people of Isiolo and Marsabit? (He has) only rhetoric, shouting pastoralists everywhere, every day,” he said.
Gachagua questioned how Duale would be able to marshal ‘millions’ of votes for President Ruto in the 2027 General Elections while he (Duale) could only raise 7,000 votes for the UDA presidential candidate in the 2022 polls in his Garissa Township Constituency backyard.
Despite his little contribution to the Kenya Kwanza administration's victory, Gachagua said Duale was appointed as the only CS from northern Kenya but had ended up doing nothing for the region and pastoralist communities.