Rigathi Gachagua will become Kenya’s first sitting vice leader to be impeached if the senate approves the motion
Kenya’s senate has begun hearing an impeachment petition against the country’s deputy president, Rigathi Gachagua. He has pleaded not guilty to all 11 charges, including corruption, engaging in ethnically divisive politics, and inciting anti-government unrest, during the proceedings on Wednesday.
The two-day trial comes a week after the majority of lawmakers in the East African nation’s parliament approved an indictment motion filed by President William Ruto’s allies. On Tuesday, Kenya’s High Court rejected an application from Gachagua’s lawyers to bar the senate, which will make the final decision on the vice president’s dismissal, from debating the petition. If the motion passes, he will become the country’s first deputy president to be impeached since the revised 2010 constitution.
Gachagua – from the Mount Kenya…