{"id":18100,"date":"2026-01-12T04:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/18100\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:54:09","slug":"gachagua-lost-lamu-woman-rep-gained-from-tutam-booing-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/18100\/","title":{"rendered":"Gachagua lost, Lamu Woman Rep gained from &#8216;tutam&#8217; booing incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cOTIkgR3bJvNnNrots01xQfebgJ5H8PekGZYAQ06.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">DCP leader Rigathi Gachagua during the official unveiling of party members of the county assembly in Nairobi on December 3, 2025. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard]&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>As politicians, Muthoni Marubu and Rigathi Gachagua are similar but different. Each verbalises what comes to mind and seemingly seeks recognition as the voice of different \u2018Kikuyu\u2019 clusters. While Muthoni believes she speaks for the Kikuyu in the Lamu and Coastal diaspora, Gachagua aspires to rule the entire \u2018Ruriri\u2019, or nation, wherever the people are. Their individual behaviour, while attending the funeral in Kigumo, Murang\u2019a, of James \u2018Bazenga\u2019 Gakuya\u2019s mother, exposed them. Muthoni\u2019s political star shone while Gachagua\u2019s seemingly dimmed.<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Bold Reporting Takes Time, Courage and Investment. Stand With Us.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    Unlimited access to all premium content<br \/>\n                    Uninterrupted ad-free browsing experience<br \/>\n                    Mobile-optimized reading experience<br \/>\n                    Weekly Newsletters<br \/>\n                    MPesa, Airtel Money and Cards accepted<\/p>\n<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va0PRAYGk1Fo4ODHAg0b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Follow The Standard<br \/>\n                                    channel<br \/>\n                                    on WhatsApp<\/a><br \/>\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; DCP leader Rigathi Gachagua during the official unveiling of party members of the county assembly in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11363,80,469,11362],"class_list":{"0":"post-18100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-tutam","9":"tag-kenya","10":"tag-president-william-ruto","11":"tag-rigathi-gachaguawoman-rep-muthoni-marubu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}