Kenyan Senators impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, a week after the National Assembly overwhelmingly approved the move.
Gachagua, now a former DP, was unable to defend himself personally in front of the Senate on Thursday during the motion.
Rigathi became ill in the afternoon and was admitted to Karen Hospital in Nairobi; his lawyers requested that the session be suspended until Saturday, but this was not granted.
Senators approved five (5) of the eleven (11) grounds for his removal, despite the fact that his legal team had done everything possible to defend him.
It is now clear that Gachagua and his boss, President William Ruto, had a strained relationship, with the latter refusing to make any public statements about his deputy’s trials.
While preparing to succeed his then-boss, Uhuru Kenyatta, Ruto praised Rigathi as “a people’s person.”
With less than three years in power, he has kept his fingers crossed as his friend faces a constitutional test.
Though many believed Rigathi had a chance in the Senate, two-thirds of the senators (67) voted against him.
Ongoya Elisha, the former attorney for DP, characterised the accusations as baseless and absurd both earlier in the day and during the two tiresome sessions.
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