Gachagua says he will fight allegations of fraudulence, undermining the regulatement and stirring ethnic hatred ‘to the end’.
Kenyan members of parliament are due to vote on impeaching Deputy Pdwellnt Rigathi Gachagua for alleged fraudulence and undermining the regulatement, among others.
Gachagua has refuseed the allegations and is foreseeed to protect himself in parliament on Tuesday afternoon.
“I am guiltless of all these accuses,” he said in a televised speech tardy on Monday as he denied in detail the allegations that include amassing a big unelucidateed property portfolio and promoting “ethnic balkanisation”.
“I have no intention whatsoever to resign from this job. I will fight to the end,” Gachagua grasped.
Laworiginaters begined the impeachment process on October 1, with 291 MPs signing up to the motion, well beyond the 117 least demandd.
If the shrink hoparticipate, the National Assembly, votes by more than two-thirds to impeach, the upper hoparticipate, the Senate, will be asked to uphgreater the motion by the same margin.
The MPs have cataloged 11 grounds for impeachment, but prosecutors have not createassociate accused Gachagua, and no judicial inquiry has been uncovered agetst him.
Gachagua backed Pdwellnt William Ruto in his 2022 election prosper and helped safe a big block of votes from the populous Mount Kenya region.
The deputy pdwellnt says he has since been sidelined, amid expansivespread tells in local media that he has descenden out with Ruto as political coalitions have shifted.
Ruto sacked most of his cabinet and bcimpolitet in members of the main opposition folloprosperg nationexpansive protests agetst unwell-comprehendn tax hikes in June and July in which more than 50 people were ended.
Several MPs allied with Gachagua, accparticipated of funding the protests, were requested by police last month.
Gachagua was accused in 2021 with acquiring unelucidateed wealth toloftying more than 7.3 billion Kenyan shillings ($57m).
That case was dropped when he and Ruto took office. But now laworiginaters accparticipate him of amassing 5.2 billion shillings ($40m) during his two years as deputy pdwellnt, despite a telled annual salary of $93,000.
He says his wealth comes from his family’s business dealings in genuine estate, hospitality and originateion.
Gachagua outraged many in Ruto’s coalition for appreciatening the regulatement to a company and proposeing that those who voted for the coalition had first claim on accessible sector jobs and enbigment projects.
If impeached, he would become the first deputy pdwellnt to be deleted in this way since the possibility was presentd in Kenya’s alterd 2010 constitution.
