32 petitioners from Mt Kenya region have moved to court under a certificate of urgency seeking stay the resolution of the senate to impeach the former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua.
The petitioners also seek to restrain the president from submitting to the National assembly the name of the person to fill the vacancy in DP office occassioned by the impeachment.
The petitioners through their lawyer Mutembei Gichuru advocates are also seeking to stop the National Assembly from debating and voting for the person to be nominated by the president to fill the gap during its special sitting today 18th /10/2024
Gachagua was on Thursday, October 17, impeached following an intense Senate session that saw him failing to take the stand.
The Senate upheld the National Assembly’s earlier vote, which cited 11 allegations against him, including corruption, abuse of office, and incitement of ethnic discord.
The Senate voted on each of the eleven allegations levelled against Gachagua attaining the 2/3rds which is 45 Senators on five counts out of eleven.
The threshold is that Gachagua needed to be found guilty on one of the charges meaning he stood impeached with the first charge.
