Thika-based preacher-turned-politician David Gakuyo has now ‘seen the light’ and changed his tune to support President William Ruto for whom he was a fierce critic.
The hitherto Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya coalition diehard who was also the Jubilee Party’s Thika Town parliamentary candidate is now full of praise for Ruto whom he termed not only as a hero but a leader truly committed to changing people’s lives.
Speaking during the burial of 97-year-old Hannah Wambui Chege in Munyu village of Thika East sub-county, Gakuyo said the President has proved his critics wrong by lowering interest rates by Fuliza and other lenders.
“What President Ruto has done so far, I don’t think Raila would have done. I think I was not wise to have opposed him (Ruto). I have now changed my mind and I am yellow from the inside and blue only on the outside,” said the bishop amid applause from mourners.
He appealed to the Head of State to target banks in the push for lower interest rates for borrowers, terming the initiative as the “real bottom-up approach.”
Gakuyo, who lost the parliamentary seat to Alice Ng’ang’a of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), also extended an olive branch to the MP and said he would cooperate with her.
“I will be offering all the support that Alice needs because she is our MP and we expect her to deliver on her pre-election pledges. She does her job well, I will go back to preaching, but if she lets us down, I will send her home at the end of her second term,” he said.
The bishop appealed to the national government through the MP’s office to intervene and offer food relief to thousands of starving families in Thika East and also to ensure completion of the Ksh1.7 billion Muguga-Munyu-Kang’oki road which stalled after the contractor did barely one kilometre of tarmac.
