National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangโula has rejected a request by Tetu MP Geoffrey Wandeto to withdraw his signature in support of a motion to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.[โฆ]CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLEโถ
Wetangโula, while addressing MPs during debate on the impeachment motion said he had received a letter from Wandeto purporting to withdraw his signature.
โI received a letter from Geofrrey Wandeto purporting to withdraw his signature. I want to invite the honourable members to read the Standing Orders that are very clear. Once you append your signature to a Special Motion, you have crossed the rubicon and you cannot withdraw that signature,โ he stated.
Rubicon is a bounding or limiting line; especially one that when crossed commits a person irrevocably.
The motion was tabled by Kibwezi West MP Mwengi Mutuse last week.
A total of 291 of the 345 members of the National Assembly appended their signatures in support of the impeachment motion against the Deputy President.
The DP only managed less than 20 per cent of the House, as the MPs in the National Assembly shot over and beyond the required 117-member threshold by 174 members to have the historic motion tabled.
The National Assembly currently has 345 members, 4 members shy of the constitutional 349 occupants.
Banisa, Magarini, and Ugunja constituencies are vacant, while ODMโs nomination slot previously occupied by Treasury CS John Mbadi is yet to be filledโฆCLICK HERE TO READ MORE ARTICLES>>>
