Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is calling on Mt Kenya residents to shun artists who paid a visit to Deputy President Kithure Kindiki.
On Friday, the Deputy President held a meeting with leading musicians from the Mt Kenya region, which he said sought to find interventions on ‘exploitative cartels’ in the industry.
“The Creative industry is a multibillion shilling business, and constant engagement with performing artists and all those in that space is imperative to find ways of supporting them through policy and protection of intellectual property rights,” Kindiki stated.
During the meeting, the musicians gave testimonies on the success of the Social Health Insurance Fund.
Now, the former Deputy President has termed the musicians’ actions as a betrayal of the community.
He called on Mt Kenya region to boycott listening to the music of artists who went to Kindiki’s home.
“Those who went to Ruto to ask for forgiveness, if not, I’ll order no one to listen to their music and no clubs will invite them to perform,” said Gachagua.
The former DP further accused an unnamed musician of spreading lies against him and his DCP party.
“Imagine one musician went to accuse me of Mr Yes Sir, that I denied him a chance to vie for MP… A standard two drop up wants to be an MP… A person who doesn’t know even one word in
English to be people’s representative?” posed Gachagua.
