Mount Kenya REJECTS Ruto’s Apology — It Just Got Worse |Plug Tv

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]I don't fear and I don't give a damn. If we don't if we are not going to respect come what may we will fight each other.

[00:00:08]If you want to know how bad things have gotten between Ruto and Mount Kenya then watch this video.

[00:00:14]Your day has come and so I would ask you to end by working with them, for example, the people of Kirinyaga. There is an old Swahili proverb that elders like to deploy when Fet has already packed his bugs and left the building. Swahilis will always tell you that on the day the monkey dies, all the trees fall.

[00:00:34]That is the day a monkey is destined to die, every tree in the forest becomes slippery. It doesn't matter how athletic the monkey is. It doesn't even matter how tightly it grips the branches. On that particular day, physics itself switches sides and the monkey must fall.

[00:00:54]Now that's where the noise is.

[00:00:57]Yes, you hear people shouting at me here in town.

[00:01:00]Right now in Mount Kenya, Rut's government appears to be discovering just how slippery a political forest can get.

[00:01:07]Because they don't want equality. Kenya is not happy. This is not news. Ever since the dramatic, controversial and depending on who you ask constitutionally questionable impeachment of Regad Gashagwa as deputy president, the region has been nursing a wound that refuses to close. No no no that ng Wait just wait just what should I say ju wait let me say it out please wait Bigg be given respect he is old. Gashagwa was not merely a deputy president to Mount Kenya. He was their man, their voice in the house. Their representative at the highest table in the land and removing him felt like someone who reached into their living room, took their chair and handed it to a stranger.

[00:01:56]Okay, okay, I'm just saying that Biji should be given his due respect, he's the one standing with the cooks who are there in the fields. and it's very bad that we will meet again thank you so much and God bless you I don't fear and I don't give a damn if we are not going to respect come what may we will fight again until I stop standing and follow this old man.

[00:02:36]It is in order and it is in order. You must respect. He stands with all tribes.

[00:02:43]I don't want to say it's not Kikuu, let's say it's Kikuu.

[00:02:45]I am not a scientist. The entire tribe stands with the league. Pray for this country. This country is more important than us politicians. And every tribe respects elders. We respect the old man, this is a ligij. And if there is no respect, let people fight over Karovia and Bogo Goji.

[00:03:05]We will meet you Ruto government sensing that the anger in Mount Kenya had graduated from grumbling to something far more structurally dangerous decided it was time for a peace mission and guess who they sent as the mediator? Kirinyaga governor Aniguru.

[00:03:23]turning before Mount Kenya residence, she said for Mount Kenya to stop taking Gashago's impeachment personally, it is time to forgive, time to move forward, time to extend an Olive branch to President Ruto and his administration and collectively turn the page on this uncomfortable chapter.

[00:03:43]There is a reason and I say that I know you felt the pain because I listened to you. I can't say I haven't heard what you are saying. I live here, but that pain shouldn't be what is separating us for the next 20 years.

[00:04:04]I am the one who said I should volunteer even if I was n't there. I am the county government. The county government didn't exist. We were just here in the grassroots. The words were in parliament, right? But I say if you were really wrong because I am in this government, then collective responsibility, let me say I am very sorry, please accept my apologies.

[00:04:31]So don't say we don't hear your problems. I want you to know that as the governor of Waigoro, I hear you.

[00:04:39]I have become what you say.

[00:04:43]I understand the pain.

[00:04:47]I understand the problems you said you had because of us. Let me start by saying hello. You have received my condolences on behalf of the government.

[00:05:00]Let me start there. Perhapsuru believed that Mount Kenya's anger was temporarily a political fever that could be cooled with the right words and the right messenger. But here is the problem with apologies delivered by proxy.

[00:05:15]raise more questions than they answer because why isn't the president himself speaking directly? Why is someone else asking for forgiveness on his behalf?

[00:05:27]Most importantly forgiveness for what exactly? If the decision was justified.

[00:05:36]Hayainyaga Senator James Murango now says that Waiguru has no moral authority to seek forgiveness from Mount Kenya. on behalf of President Rut argued that it is not her apology to give. And even if Mount Kenya residents were in a forgiving mood, Murango added that the damage may already be done in his view, President Rudo has demonstrated that he cannot be trusted in the region.

[00:06:04]And ask me, governor, where do you get the strength to come and try to sell us your exemptions when the rice we grow on the Mwea Mpando side is in warehouses, we have imported rice that has dropped from 85 shillings to 60 shillings, where do you get the strength when our warehouses are full of rice that is purchased by the government and they promised us that they would come and carry the rice. Where do you get your strength from when the rice farmers' roads are impassable rather than making them? Where do you get your strength from when all our hospitals are in ruins, there is no medicine. Doctors cry every morning. Where do you get your strength from?

[00:06:52]Where do you get your strength from? When kindergarten teachers and children study in worthless ruins, it's as if the parents made a mistake in giving birth.

[00:07:05]Where do you get the strength to come and apologize to us when after eight years we are the only ones who don't have any system to feed our preschool children. I would ask that as you finish and walk away respectfully, do one thing that we will remember you for. Stop with the politics. I know you have been in the habit of leaving this government to go to another, but here you have made a decision that is completely wrong. I'm used to him sitting there, not falling, it's not funny. Your day has come. And so I would ask you to end by working with them, for example, the citizens of Kirinyanga, and leave this other political issue behind. We will give you eight years. Pack your bags, leave slowly, and plan what you will be remembered for in Kirinyaga County. First, I would like to respond to my governor Anwaguru because I saw yesterday in the Mwea area that he had gone to apologize on behalf of the government for the dismissal of former deputy president Rikad Kashagwa. I would like to tell the governor that we cannot expect to get justice in front of the people who benefit from our problems. First, he said that it was the members of parliament who did that, but I know that there was a lot of pressure from the government and President William Rutu, and therefore the waigurus were one of them. He was expecting to benefit greatly from the removal of the former deputy president, I, who had bought new gloves, those high shoes, he had bought them, he was smiling everywhere, even his teeth had been washed, he had gone to the toilet, he had done everything, but now he is coming to say he is apologizing to us. The person who accepted the one who quoted is making a secret plan in the dark to accept his brother, a real brother, a blood brother, he intended to accept him while he was alive, so now he is coming to apologize. The first thing I would say to the governor is that he is incompetent because he is the only governor of Kirinyaga. The government has a government spokesperson and a president who was heavily involved in these matters. You even heard in court that he was even calling to ask about the condition of the former vice president. Not for good but for bad. But today I want my governor to direct him to a place where he can go to grant pardons for brushing his teeth, buying gloves, running away, I even heard he was beating again, they were close by, they were roaming everywhere.

[00:09:51]Oh, some people there are shaking their heads, while they are shouting, "He'll be passing by the stage, asking about the weather so that his guard will resemble the clouds." He had done everything. He should apologize for what he did and we know that those who did it in the dark, deep down, may be asking for forgiveness.

[00:10:08]Secondly, let me say that what happened happened to the people of Kirinyaga, not the people of Njinga.

[00:10:18]Just like a person who eats grapes, you cannot make a person from Kirinyaga eat its seeds. We will plant our seeds next year. And so I would like to tell the governor that he is finishing the firewood while boiling these stones. The people of Kirinyaga have reached the place where they have arrived. If they are to be given instructions, they will be given instructions by people who are leading properly and people who hear their cries, not someone who has come just to benefit. I want to tell the governor that you cannot cry with a hawk and you are a crow. So let me end by saying we are not ready to accept this apology of yours Governor Wavu you can take it somewhere else because when he was being removed the one who was speaking very badly was you insulting the G League. At this moment you see now what you call ground is completely ruined things have gone downhill there is no place you can hold on to difficult things and we know you are also looking for a place to stay and we know that when you hear an apology from that traitor it is not an apology he is a little offended because he was caught and therefore we do not want an apology from a traitor and and there is no time we will turn away from an apology and we know that even if we accept that the leopard in the pen does not die of crying he will eat the sheep again so that is the Waigoro apology take it somewhere else where we can move forward because our importance is not here so we have walked so back to our Swahili proverb the image is almost too perfect rut's government reaching desperately for one branch after another in mount Kenya waiguru here an apology there a reconciliation rally somewhere else while the region watches each branch bend and sleep and fail to hold the tragedy is not that the government is trying it is that every attempt seems to confirm exactly what Mount Kenya already suspects that this administration understands the optics of reconciliation far better than it understands the substance of it because you cannot send someone to apologize for a wound you haven't personally acknowledged. You cannot ask a community to forgive and forget when the man who caused the offense has not shown up to ask for forgiveness himself. And you absolutely cannot expect political loyalty from a region that has watched trust be broken and then offered in return a carefully worded statement from a governor.

[00:13:09]Apparently the trees it seems are getting slippery for the Kenyan Kanza government.