DP RUTO UNVEILS RIGATHI GACHAGUA’S REPLACEMENT.

The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) has picked Rigathi Gachagua’s replacement in the Mathira parliamentary contest.

While campaigning in the area on Saturday, May 21, UDA led by Deputy President, William Ruto, settled on Konyu Ward Member of County Assembly (MCA), Eric Wamumbi, as its candidate.

The slot was left vacant after DP Ruto settled on Gachagua as his running mate with Jubilee fielding 76-year old billionaire, Wambura Wamaranga taking her second stab at the seat.

Wamaranga lost to the incumbent in the 2017 elections.

Wamumbi sits in the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council that is chaired by Deputy President William Ruto and is not new to making headlines.

He hit headlines in 2020 following the controversial death of his wife, Catherine Nyambura with detectives moving in the solve the puzzle and summoning him to record a statement.

The body of his deceased wife was found in Hohwe dam in Mathira on 24 May 2022.

“The call came from the public that a body of a woman had been spotted in Hohwe Dam.

“We removed the body and moved it to Karatina Hospital Mortuary,” Mathira East Sub-County police boss James Barasa said at the time.

A pathologist who represented the family, told the media that Nyambura’s body did not have any physical injuries but added that the results were not conclusive and that a government pathologist had to be consulted.

Further probe into her death would reveal that her head, lungs and stomach had a lot of fluid. 

Wamumbi mourned his wife writing: “My wife was the best thing that ever happened to me. She valued family than anything else on this earth. Her passing on leaves great emptiness in my life and that of our two sons”.

By Kenya leo