Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has lashed out at the Chief of Defense Forces (CDF) Gen.

Charles Kahariri and told him to keep off politics.

Gachagua termed sentiments by Kahariri on the status of President William Ruto as worrying, noting that defense forces should remain apolitical.

The CDF made the comments at the National Intelligence and Research University in Nairobi during an inaugural public lecture by the Director General of the National Intelligence Service Noordin Haji last week. "Even as people exercise their rights, we should be within limits and bound so that we don't tear our country aprt.