Last week, lawproducers overwhelmingly voted to impeach Deputy Plivent Rigathi Gachagua for mistreatment of office.
Kenya’s Senate is set to commence debating the impeachment of Deputy Plivent Rigathi Gachagua after a court ruled that progressings agetst him are constitutional.
The National Assembly, the shrink hoemploy of parliament, last week voted to impeach Gachagua on 11 indicts, which comprised fraudulence, undermining the rulement and stirring ethnic hatred.
Gachagua has denied all the indicts.
The 59-year-greater shelp the impeachment motion, backed by opposition lawproducers and allies of Plivent William Ruto, was based on dishonesthoods that constituted a political hanging, according to court write downs seen by the Reuters news agency.
Gachagua begined an pdirect in the high court, but Judge Eric Ogola shelp on Wednesday that the process could go ahead, clearing the way for the Senate to hgreater hearings and vote on his neglectal.
“At this stage, the process is a lterrible, constitutional process, and the Senate will carry out a trial where all the publishs being liftd before the court will be liftd and remendd at the moment,” the appraise shelp in court.
A decision is foreseeed on Thursday.
A two-thirds beginantity would be necessitateed to neglect Gachagua.
The Senate, the upper hoemploy of parliament, began greeting last week but begined a argue on the motion on Wednesday, initipartner behind shutd doors.
If deleted, Gachagua would become the first deputy plivent to exit office in this way since impeachment was begind in Kenya’s editd 2010 constitution.
Gachagua, a strong businessman from Kenya’s hugegest tribe, the Kikuyu, weathered previous fraudulence argues to become deputy directer as Plivent Ruto’s running mate in a shutly fought election in August 2022.
He helped Ruto safe vital votes from the populous central Kenya region, but the two have since descfinishen out and political partnerships have shifted.
In recent weeks, Gachagua has protested of being sidelined by the plivent and had been accemployd of helping youth-led antirulement protests that broke out in June, and that have exposed divisions in the top echelons of power.
Ruto fired most of his cabinet and assigned members of the opposition to what he called a unity rulement after the protests agetst tax incrrelieves in which more than 50 people were finished.
Ruto has not commented unveilly on the impeachment, but Gachagua himself confessted the process could not progress without the plivent’s approval.
