Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua now says he will give Mt Kenya a new political direction on February 10 after failing to meet a self-imposed 14-day deadline.
Mr Gachagua on Sunday apologised for reneging on his earlier promise of issuing the way forward after his political divorce with President William Ruto by the close of January 2025.
He said he had missed his January headline because of the "overwhelming interest that I have received from regions".
"I am late in announcing the Mt Kenya directive. I am sorry. I thought it was only the Mountain that was interested. The goodwill is overwhelming because we are getting interest from across the country," he said in Mathioya Constituency, Murang'a County.
"On Sunday, February 9, 2025, I will gather all Mt Kenya vernacular media stations together so that they can air my interim report about where we should go...and also ask you for more time to enable me to continue listening to more views," he said.
He called on the Mt Kenya voting bloc to remain united and keep the faith ahead of the 2027 General Elections saying top on his agenda is to craft a national movement that will kick Dr Ruto out of power and among other things, save pay slip holders from oppression.
"I will restore the dignity of the pay slip. We are going to deal with the raiding of the pay slip politically. We will abolish those levies that have been put there by force. There is hope. The pay slip invasion must be rescued by all that it takes," he said.
The former DP warned President Ruto against hurling his negative vibes during political rallies saying he will be hitting back in kind.
He said, "I must remain focused to know who is sending the attack dogs with their insults and idle talk...My focus is their master and there will be no escape route".
"I will never trade words with Ruto's attack dogs. I will train my guns on Ruto himself. He sends them to insult me together with my community and the president as their master pays the price. I will respond to him in equal measure, more lethal venom".
Citing a recent incident where in Kirinyaga County a clash between suspected Mungiki adherents has resulted in three deaths, he said "the government is setting a trap for Mt Kenya people to fight each other so that the president can later come here and deceptively play the peacemaker".
Murang'a Senator Joe Nyutu had reported that "this government has murdered our child in Murang'a, an orphan called Dennis Mwangi 28, who was the only hope for his elderly and ailing grandmother. That is gross".
Mr Mwangi was reported abducted on December 8, 2024, only to be identified from the freezers of the City mortuary on January 31, 2025.
Gatanga MP Mr Edward Muriu said, "we should abandon calls for the formation of a Commission of inquiry about abductions, engorged disappearances and extrajudicial killings since we know the killers are the government...the government is the one to appoint those to serve in the commission...the government cannot probe its murderous trait".
