According to details that have come before the court, State House operatives and security officers made covert visits to Manyani Maximum Security Prison in October 2024, the very period when the Gachagua impeachment process was at its peak.
The person they went to see was Jackson Kihara, the jailed son of the late Nyeri Governor Nderitu Gachagua, who is serving a 20 year sentence for robbery with violence. The visits were not official. They were covert. And a deal was reportedly struck during those encounters.
The nature of that deal and what was offered or expected in return has not been fully revealed in court, but the timing alone raises questions that demand answers.
Senior officials travelling secretly to a maximum security prison to meet a man behind bars, during the very week the government was pushing to remove his uncle from the second highest office in the land, is not the kind of coincidence that explains itself.
Kihara had already told the court that he believes his uncle Gachagua framed him for the robbery with violence conviction in order to seize the family estate.
The revelation that government operatives then visited him in prison and struck a deal during the impeachment process adds an entirely new and troubling dimension to that account.
It raises a question that the court may now be forced to answer. Was Jackson Kihara's imprisonment, and whatever was promised to him inside Manyani, somehow connected to the political operation that ended his uncle's career? Kenya is waiting for the full story to emerge.
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