National Assembly sittings resume today to debate DP Gachagua’s impeachment
The National Assembly is set to resume sittings today morning to consider the Special Motion on the removal from office, by impeachment of the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya Rigathi Gachagua.
The impeachment motion, tabled by Kibwezi West Member of Parliament Mwengi Mutuse, accused the Deputy President Gachagua of gross misconduct, violations of the Constitution.
In a televised interview and an address to the nation yesterday evening, DP Gachagua termed the accusations leveled against him as outrageous and vowed to clear his name before the lawmakers.
” I’m innocent on all these charges. My apology to President Ruto yesterday is in no way an admission of these ridiculous allegations meant to overturn the will of the people. Overturning the will of the people is no joke. None of these accusations meet the threshold for impeachment. I will be at Bunge tomorrow at 5 pm.” He said.
He also said that today’s session on the floor of the National Assembly would be a circus and a theatre of the absurd.
I think tomorrow will be the greatest circus or do I call it the theatre of the absurd that DP Rigathi Gachagua, undertaking duties assigned to him by the President to fight illicit brews and drugs should be impeached because by doing so he is interfering with devolution. Out of those efforts our young men who were sleeping in trenches are back home. Women are very happy their husbands are back home, some children have been born, some have even been nicknamed Riggy G because of the effort that I have put in fighting illicit brews.” He said.
291 Members of Parliament signed the impeachment motion against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
The motion laid 11 grounds for DP Gachagua’s ouster ranging from gross violations of the constitution and other laws such as the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act, the Leadership and Integrity Act and the National Cohesion and Integration Act.
