Githunguri Member of Parliament (MP) Gathoni wa Muchomba on Thursday faulted the government, specifically President William Ruto, over its move to vaccinate over 22 million livestock in Kenya from January 2025.
The lawmaker, on a video she recorded herself and shared with her supporters, criticised the government over the vaccination terming it as a globalist agenda with negative outcomes that should not be allowed to see the light of day. She noted that the vaccines to be used were not adopted in their countries of origin.
“I wish to change from the onset, this is not our idea. It is a foreign idea being pushed to us with some clear intentions and deliverables,” she stated.
According to the lawmaker, the vaccination aims to introduce a gene-modifying drug to livestock animals for them to stop emitting methane into the air in a bid to combat climate change.
Wamuchomba said she found the move absurd because Kenyans have existed with the animals for centuries without any harmful effects, questioning the motive behind the vaccination. She added that livestock are valuable and part of African heritage.
The MP, who is Rigathi Gachagua’s ally, fingered the president for making the decision without engaging the citizens.
“It is not okay for the president to go to an international meeting and agree to vaccinate our animals without our consent,” she blasted.
She added that those behind vaccination claim that the animals’ natural release of intestinal gas into the atmosphere is a means of relief from normal feeding and the flatulent process is a hazardous process to the environment, something she strongly disagreed with.
“They want us to stop producing our own food and make sure that we are dependent on their own food. This is a globalist idea that comes with a lot of negative impacts,” she explained rejecting the proposed vaccination exercise.
She further vowed to oppose the vaccination, calling on Kenyans not to allow their animals vaccinated.
“I reject this experimental programme in totality. Let everybody know that we will resist them till the very end,” she said adding, “The vaccination hurts our animals and our cultural heritage, endangers our people genetically, our animals genetically, interferes with the productivity and reproductivity of these animals and in totality has some cost implications.”
It comes as Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development Andrew Karanja on November 21 assured Kenyans that the vaccines are safe. This was after Kalonzo Musyoka called out the government for having a hidden agenda in the rollout of the vaccination.
The CS said the program aligns with the government’s broader strategy to address livestock health challenges which impacts productivity and the livelihoods of millions of Kenyans dependent on agriculture.
President Ruto announced the rollout of the vaccinations while in Narok on November 8, 2024, arguing that it will help secure the international market for livestock products.
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