DP Gachagua: Impeachment Plot Could Hurt Raila’s AUC Bid

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is banking on public participation to save his skin as MPs plan to table a motion for his impeachment at the National Assembly....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

Addressing local stations in Meru on Sunday night, Mr Gachagua said kicking him out of the Kenya Kwanza administration would not be a walk in the park like lawmakers want it to appear.

Mr Gachagua said from the meetings he had held over the past week, the people in the Mt Kenya region are not interested in seeing him out of the government.

He said public participation is enshrined in the Constitution before such a matter as impeachment is decided, adding that “it not done just like that. We must follow the law and the Constitution is clear where the Parliament cannot be left alone to handle such a serious matter…”

“I am waiting to see how they will conduct the public participation after the motion is tabled because that is a requirement. Let the MPs go to the people and ask them whether impeaching Gachagua is the right thing to do when we have a lot of work to do,” the DP said.

“I have toured the Mt Kenya region and my people on the ground have told me I should not get shaken, and assured me that when their MPs come to ask them whether they should impeach me, they will tell them off. The job I hold was given to me by the people of Kenya and just 200 people cannot overturn the will of the people,” he added.

Mr Gachagua waded into the formation of the broad-base government, saying although he was not initially consulted about incorporating opposition leader Raila Odinga’s allies into the Cabinet, he embraced it after President William Ruto explained why it was necessary.

“The president told me that we needed to foster unity in the country and I agreed. But if the numbers were being mobilised in Parliament so that they can kick me out of government, then the president was not honest and he will not be trusted even in churches. Kenyans will realise that Mr Odinga did not come for unity, but to destroy the United Democratic Alliance party, which will suffer stability,” he said.

“Again, if they go ahead with the plan to impeach me, it will not augur well for Raila Odinga in his quest to clinch the AUC chair. How can he be fighting battles at home and seeking a continental position that is supposed to unify Africa…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ARTICLES>>>