By Nyanza Wire 
Rigathi Gachagua wants Kenyans to believe he is their tax liberator.
At rally after rally, the impeached former Deputy President thunders with fake concern: “When I become president, I will restore the dignity of the payslip by removing all taxes from Kenyans’ earnings.”
Yet this same man is currently in the High Court aggressively demanding that ordinary taxpayers hand him a massive payout running into billions of shillings.
Having dropped his bid for reinstatement, Gachagua is now seeking full-term compensation for the remaining period of his deputy presidency up to 2027. His lawyers are pushing for back pay, gratuity, pension, retirement benefits, special damages (already quantified at over Sh80 million), and other perks — with projections that the total claim could reach Sh450 million if the entire unserved term is awarded.
This is staggering hypocrisy.
While hardworking Kenyans battle heavy PAYE deductions, high fuel prices and a punishing cost of living, Gachagua wants the public purse — funded by those same taxpayers — to write him a fat cheque worth billions. Money that could instead build schools, equip hospitals, repair roads or ease the very tax burden he claims to fight.
If he is so confident of winning the 2027 presidency, as he repeatedly boasts, why rush to court for compensation now? Why not wait 13 months, assume office, and enjoy even greater benefits and privileges as Head of State? The answer is simple: this is naked greed, not principle.
The man impeached amid allegations of corruption and abuse of office now expects suffering Kenyans to compensate him generously for losing the very power he abused.
Kenyans see the con clearly. You cannot preach tax relief from the podium while simultaneously demanding billions from the same overburdened payslips.
This is not the behaviour of a reformer or future president. It is the desperate act of a bitter, fallen politician whose only consistent ideology is self-enrichment at public expense.
The mask has completely fallen. Gachagua stands exposed as a classic political conman — promising salvation while reaching deep into the public till for himself.
Kenyans deserve far better than this level of shameless greed.