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Wednesday, June 12, 2024 –Majority Leader Kimani Ichungwah has revealed the number of bodyguards Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua had with him to Mombasa on Tuesday.
Speaking in Parliament today Wednesday June 12, Mr. Ichung’wah who was fielding questions from fellow members said, Gachagua had no problem or any shortage of the people to help carry his luggage at the airport.
He detailed that the DP had not less than 19 aides including security personnel with him at the time he was at the airport.
According to the majority leader, with him, were also three photographers and other handlers whom the DP decided to hide from the camera when he was boarding the Mombasa-bound plane.
“I can confirm to this House and the public that DP Gachagua had 14 bodyguards and 3 photographers. He had no problem with people to carry his bag,” Ichung’wah on DP Gachagua’s commercial flight to Mombasa.
He broke up the number saying that, he(Gachgau) was very well secured with not less than 19 bodyguards with whom 14 were to travel with him on aircraft. “Let people not think he had problems of people to carry his bag. With him were also three assigned photographers who took the photos that went viral on Tuesday”.
“I wonder why he was towing the new bag and posing for photographs. Why is it that the bag could not fit in the bag compartment in the plane?” posed Ichungwah.
Ichung’wah, therefore, added that the DP was very secure when he was boarding the Mombasa plane on Tuesday and that what he was doing was to pull a stunt to attract public sympathy.
MP Mohamed Junet, however, sought to understand how the DP would carry over 20 personnel in a plane with a carrying capacity of only sixty.
