Mt Kenya rejects political gossip as hunger, joblessness, and heavy taxes bite. The people want progressive politics, not more palace drama that comes too late. Gathoni, you are no different from water settled on arrowroot leaves. When Wamuchomba talks about stolen sheep, the people of Mt Kenya hear nothing about their stolen livelihoods.

In the wake of her sensational claims that Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua once formed a WhatsApp group to plan the theft of Uhuru Kenyatta’s sheep, Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba has lit a fire in the mountain, but not the kind she hoped for. Her revelation, which came suspiciously soon after the burial of Raila Odinga, is being met not with applause, but with anger, fatigue, and deep suspicion. Across the ridges and markets of Mt Kenya, the people are whispering the same phrase: “Gathoni, sit down, we’re fighting for freedom, not sheep.”

For ordinary Kenyans from Nyeri to Kirinyaga, this is not a season for palace gossip. It’s a season of survival. Families are fighting to pay school fees, traders are struggling with taxes that strangle every profit, and farmers are watching their coffee and milk prices collapse while their leaders bicker over the ghosts of past regimes. In such an atmosphere, Wamuchomba’s outburst sounds like an insult to the people’s pain. Her story may dominate headlines, but it has failed to dominate hearts.

The truth is simple: Mt Kenya voters are disillusioned, not distracted. They see through the smoke of political theatre. When Wamuchomba talks about stolen sheep, they hear nothing about their stolen livelihoods. When she positions herself as a defender of Uhuru’s dignity, they remember that Uhuru’s silence helped create the very political monster now tormenting them, a system that has turned hustlers into beggars and entrepreneurs into debtors. They do not want nostalgia for dynasties; they want deliverance from deception.

Let’s be blunt. The mountain no longer fears William Ruto, but it despises what his government represents: overtaxation, arrogance, and betrayal. Rigathi Gachagua, despite his imperfections and political missteps, has emerged as a reluctant symbol of rebellion within that oppressive structure. He is not loved, but he is tolerated as a vessel for defiance. When he challenges Ruto’s policies, he voices what millions of Mt Kenya citizens feel: that this presidency has become an abductor of their economic dignity.

Wamuchomba’s move, therefore, reeks of opportunism. Her sudden morality play appears less like truth-telling and more like a script written by those who want to neutralize Gachagua and pacify a restless region. Her timing, immediately after the national mourning for Raila Odinga, is strategic: while the country was grieving, she injected poison into Mt Kenya’s fragile unity. It’s a tactic familiar in Kenyan politics: drop a bomb when emotions run high and truth runs low.

But Mt Kenya is no longer naive. The people who filled ballot boxes for Ruto in 2022 have since discovered the price of blind loyalty. They have watched as their leaders traded the people’s pain for political favors. They know that every new alliance, every WhatsApp leak, every “unity call” is just another step in the endless dance of betrayal. And they are tired. Tired of politicians who think they can manipulate memory and manufacture outrage. Tired of leaders who pretend to be victims while feasting on the same state they claim to oppose.

In that context, Wamuchomba’s antics are not just irrelevant, they are offensive. She cannot lecture the mountain on morality when mothers can’t afford unga. She cannot preach about unity while serving the interests of those who divided the region. She cannot ask us to hate the one man daring to confront Ruto’s tyranny, while she dines with the same forces that sold us this misery. Her claims might win her short-term attention, but in the long run, they expose her as a traitor to the cause of liberation — the cause to end Ruto’s deceitful rule.

Mt Kenya’s cry today is not for gossip; it is for justice. It is a cry against hunger, against humiliation, against a regime that mocked our loyalty and stole our future. The people are not looking for who stole whose sheep; they are looking for who will return their dignity. And that, Gathoni, is not found in WhatsApp groups or in press conferences; it is found in courage, in honesty, and in standing with the oppressed, not with their oppressors.

If Gathoni Wamuchomba’s aim was to rescue Uhuru’s reputation or gain favors from State House, she has misread the room. The mountain is not nostalgic, it’s restless. Its people no longer kneel before power; they question it. The politics of gossip is dead. The politics of survival, truth, and rebellion has taken its place. So to Wamuchomba and all those playing games while we suffer, the mountain speaks with one voice: Sit down. We are fighting for freedom, not sheep.

Disclaimer:
This report reflects the analysis of public sentiment in the Mt Kenya region as expressed across social media platforms, interviews, and citizen commentary. The allegations mentioned remain unproven in court. The piece represents an editorial interpretation and does not imply factual guilt or innocence of any party.