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"For one and a half years I taught Kwanthanze Secondary School in Machakos which is doing very well in volleyball and I am the one who started that team because I used to play volleyball."

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has revealed he was an English teacher before he joined the University of Nairobi in 1985. 

Speaking on Saturday, August 20 at Kinyaga High School in Kirinyaga County, the Deputy President said he taught a school in Machakos County known as Kwanthanze secondary school. 

DP Gachagua boasted that he was the one who started the volleyball team at Kwanthanze Secondary School during his time as a teacher.

“I taught as an untrained teacher between form six and university, we had what we call double intake, it was taking two years to get into university, we left Kianyaga at the end of 1983 and I was in the university in October 1985.

"For one and a half years, I taught Kwanthanze Secondary School in Machakos which is doing very well in volleyball and I am the one who started that team because I used to play volleyball. I was teaching English and literature,” Gachagua revealed.

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File image of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua at Kianyaga High School. 
The second in command also revealed that he got a distinction in literature from Kianyaga High School and vowed to come back and teach one of the classes in the school.

In a statement on Sunday, Gachagua noted that he signed a memorandum of understanding with Kianyaga High School teachers.

“We have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the teachers that the Alumni will handle the hardware (infrastructural development) while the teachers will take charge of the software (performance),” Gachagua stated.

He further expressed conference that his former school will be on the Kenyan map soon.