Deputy President Rigathi Gachaguaโs lawyers walked out of the Senate on Thursday after their request to postpone the impeachment trial to October 22, 2024, was rejected.[โฆ]CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLEโถ
Lead counsel Paul Muite had appealed to the Speaker Amason Kingi to suspend the sittings to Saturday, citing Gachaguaโs hospitalization due to severe chest pains as grounds for the delay.
However, the Senate dismissed the request and instead voted to continue the trial on Saturday.
Following the decision, Gachaguaโs legal team sought permission to withdraw from delivering their closing arguments.
โMr Speaker, through you, let me recognise the right of this Honourable Senate to decide any issue put to it democratically which Mr. Speaker is what has happened,โ Muite state
โArising for that decision of this Honourable Senate, was the legal team representing the DP are not able to continue appearing without instructions. We humbly and with a lot of requests take your leave Mr Speaker and the leave of this honourable house.โ
In what was an eventful second day of the Senate hearing in the Gachagua impeachment trial, the counsel, led by Paul Muite, openly showed their discontent after Senate Speaker Amason Kingi ruled the trial process would continue in the absence of Deputy President Rigathi GachaguaโฆCLICK HERE TO READ MORE ARTICLES>>>
