If there was an option of electing a trumpet-blower, Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba would emerge victorious unopposed.
She has cut for herself a name of a politician, forever blowing the trumpet over this or that, the factuality of her words notwithstanding.
“It does not matter if you like me or not. It is not a must that you like what I say. The bottom line is that when history is written about me, generations will know I lived and made it my business to tell it as it was,” she has been quoted as saying in the past.
At the moment, Ms Wamuchomba is riding high on her sensational claims that she was among a small team that attempted to convince Mr Rigathi Gachagua to resign as deputy president instead of facing the impeachment of October 2024.
“I was among those who drafted his resignation letter, and he had agreed to read it to the nation. Gachagua, instead, ignored us and decided he wanted to be given billions of shillings to quit. He even feigned sickness so that the cash could be delivered to his hospital bed,” she told Inooro TV on January 20.
Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba.
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The claim attracted rebuttal from Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) loyalists, with Naivasha MP Jayne Kihara saying: “Sometimes listening to my sister Wamuchomba speak gives me a headache...She is a propagandist par excellence”.
Mr Gachagua later said the Githunguri MP “wanted DCP to give her a direct ticket to defend her seat”.
“She has never been home in DCP. Nobody knows what Wamuchomba stands for. Her claims are too many to a point that we can only wait for her to make up her mind on what yarn she wants us to believe,” the former DP said.
Ms Wamuchomba opposed Mr Gachagua’s impeachment, “cried” her heart out on camera outside Karen Hospital where the then-DP had been admitted. She later joined the DCP in its formative stages.
“I am no longer in that ears’ party (DCP’s symbol is an ear). I have nothing to do with that deceptive man who has commercialised DCP membership to attract the highest bidders,” the lawmaker said recently.
New Gema chairman, Isaac Mungai – a Gachagua diehard – says Ms Wamuchomba’s “problem is not all that serious”.
Kiambu Woman Representative Gathoni Wamuchomba during an interview at her Membly office in Ruiru on March 7, 2023.
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“She is persistently erratic. Wamuchomba is a drama queen who thrives on stirring the waters,” he said.
“A graduate teacher who switched to vernacular journalism and later to politics is bound, in her five decades of life, to carry along a clash of sensational inclinations that are forgivable.”
Mr Mungai added that Ms Wamuchomba can only be a headache if people make it their business to worry about her utterances.
“She is best left to the judgment of voters, who recall her demanding a salary increment immediately she won the Kiambu woman representative seat in 2017. She has gone to the extent of accusing colleagues of receiving bribes in toilets to pass bills,” he said.
“She has neither friend nor foe. The MP sings the tune that offers immediate rewards. It is just a matter of time before she comes up with a different political tune,” Mr Warui said.
In the last three years alone, the Githunguri MP has expressed “unwavering” support to President William Ruto, Mr Gachagua, Jubilee party boss Fred Matiang’i, and even ODM Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna.
The lawmaker now says she is back in President Ruto’s fold “before deciding on my next move in 2027”.
