Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua now claims that there is a plot to divide the Mt. Kenya unity using leaders from the region.

Speaking on Friday during a thanksgiving ceremony at Mutonyora Comprehensive School in Njabini, Nyandarua County, the DP warned residents of the mountain that they risk being shortchanged if they do not unite.

Gachagua, claiming he could see darkness in the near future, urged the locals to sound the alarm when they see traitors.

“I am not too clever, and neither am I a fool, there is something I know and when I look keenly, wake up early and look, I see darkness, I see someone plotting against us, and our children being used to divide us,” said the Deputy President, who spoke in his native Kikuyu language.

Gachagua likened the politicians who he accused of being used to sow disunity to children, further asking parents from the region to engage them, saying divisions in the Mt. Kenya communities would bring problems that he did not detail.

“Parents, these are our children, talk to them. Tell them to be wary because the enemy of the Kikuyu, is a Kikuyu. Let us be careful, love one another,” he stated.

The DP, who has been in the eye of a political storm in recent times, told locals that no Mt. Kenya leader should turn against the other and called for a unity of purpose in the region.

“Everywhere else, you do not find people being incited to fight one another, it is only in this region. We should not be fools, let us wisen up, let us open our eyes and see the future,” he said.

The Deputy President also asked Mt. Kenya residents to support President William Ruto.

Leaders allied to him fanned the flames of discord in the ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party as they took on Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja who on Thursday accused the DP of bullying other leaders.

Nyandarua Senator John Methu said: “Governor wa Nairobi hana any impetus ya kujibizana na mheshimiwa Rigathi Gachagua, na nilimwambia jana tukiwa pale Bunge.”

Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei stated: “Ukikosea heshima naibu wa rais, umekosea rais William Ruto heshima kwa sababu hawa ni chanda na pete na hawa ni Presidency, you cannot separate them.”

DP Gachagua’s revamped Mt. Kenya unity talks come amidst opposition by a section of leaders in the ruling party, among them Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi, who has seemingly ruffle feathers in the region.