🟢Impeachment vote ✳ YES – 281 ✳ NO- 44 ✳ ABSTENTION – 1 Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR |  At least 281 MPs on Tuesday voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Speaker Moses Wetangula called the vote after only 44 of the required 117 MPs voted to save the DP. The vote followed a protracted …

Kenya's National Assembly has voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Some 281 MPs voted for the motion, with 44 voting against. Having fallen out of favour over the past year, Gachagua was…

44 Kenyan MPs voted against his destitution and 1 MP abstained. If the Senate backs the motion too, Gachagua would become the first deputy president to be impeached since the new constitution was adopted in 2010.

Procedure to consider removal of Rigathi Gachagua from office now is in Senate

Kenya’s Vice-President, Rigathi Gachagua, is facing impeachment proceedings initiated by the national assembly, stemming from accusations of supporting the violent anti-government protests that shook the country in June. Gachagua has also been accused of corruption, fostering ethnic divisions, and engaging in actions deemed incompatible with the responsibilities of his office. Naija News understands that lawmakers […]