DCP Party Leader Rigathi Gachagua dropped a political bombshell on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, accusing French President Emmanuel Macron of being a direct participant in a Ksh 7.3 billion financial scandal in Kenya.
The former deputy president alleged that the funds were illegally siphoned from the Fuel Levy Fund to compensate French companies following the cancellation of the Rironi-Mau Summit road contract.
Gachagua anchored his allegations in a May 2026 Auditor General’s report, which he claims flagged the irregular movement of between Ksh 7.3 billion and Ksh 7.5 billion. He argued that the Kenya Kwanza administration diverted money originally ring-fenced for road maintenance and used it instead to pay out French firms after the government terminated their Public-Private Partnership deal, a move he described as both unlawful and deliberate.
The former deputy president went further, alleging that when the government re-awarded the contract to Chinese firms, the price tag ballooned from the original Ksh150 billion agreed with the French consortium to Ksh200 billion.
According to Gachagua, that Ksh50 billion gap was no accounting error; he described it plainly as “the share of corruption” shared among high-level officials who engineered the switch.
With Macron in Nairobi to attend the Africa Forward Summit, Gachagua seized the moment to address the French leader directly and by name.
“Mr. Emmanuel Macron, you are an accomplice in the Ksh7.3 billion, and that is the money you have come for as negotiated between yourself and President William Ruto,” he stated.
Gachagua further linked the alleged financial scandal to the hostile reception President Macron received at the University of Nairobi, claiming that the students’ jeers were a direct reaction to the “looting” of public funds. He alleged that Kenyans are frustrated because billions are being paid out to foreign firms while citizens struggle to afford basic necessities like school fees.
The DCP leader also took the opportunity to demand President Macron’s intervention in a local commercial dispute. He highlighted a standoff between the Meru County government and a French national who owns a hotel within the Meru National Park.
At the heart of the Meru dispute sits a Ksh64 million claim that the French property owner is pressing against the county government. Gachagua warned that if the county is forced to settle that debt, the financial consequences will fall hardest on children in Meru County who could find themselves locked out of school because their local government can no longer afford to fund education.
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