You can't choose friends for me, Karua tells Gachagua

By Peter Ochieng

Azimio La Umoja One Kenya deputy leader Martha Karua on Friday hit out at deputy president Rigathi Gachagua for 'trying to choose friends for her.'

Speaking at Bondo stadium on Friday during an interdenominational prayer service for people killed during anti-government demos last month, Karua said she is happy to be with her friends in Azimio.

"They have profiled Azimio, now they are profiling individual leaders that is why they will say don't walk with Wajackoyah, don't walk with Maina Njenga. I want to tell them, you cannot choose friends for me," she said.

"Watu wa Azimio ni sawa (AzImio people are okay. I will walk with them and I will fight for the rights of Kenyans with them," she said.

This week, Gachagua fired salvos at Karua for being in the company of the likes of Roots party leader George Wajackoyah, whom he said was influencing her negatively.

"This issue of putting sufuria on the head is ashaming us. This woman I will look for her, I know she is my friend and we know each other. I will speak to her," Gachagua said on Wednesday.

"Let me tell her, this sufuria she is putting on the head is because of walking with a person called Wajackoyah."

Wajackoyah, a presidential candidate during the August, 2022 polls had pledged to legalise the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, had he won the race to State House.

Azimio leaders were seen putting sufurias on their heads while protesting over the cost of living.