Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has disclosed that he approached President William Ruto about a purported impeachment plot against him.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
The DP is facing increased isolation as the National Assembly considers an alleged impeachment motion.
Gachagua stated that the President disregarded it, claiming that no one is capable of advancing such an agenda.
The DP also stated that no motion of impeachment against a deputy president can proceed to Parliament unless the President approves.
He said that no one else can push such a motion to Parliament unless it is the President.
The DP, however, said that in his case, it has not reached that point.
Gachagua added that anything contentious or with serious national implications will have to get the nod of the President.
“The matter has come up again, I have not asked him again, but when I get an opportunity when he comes back, I will raise the matter with him. I will say Mr President a meeting was held and what was said, what do you have to say about it? Mr President, you want us to destabilize this country? Are you part of what they are saying? The President will pronounce himself in the matter,” he said.
President Ruto stopped an earlier attempt to remove the Deputy President, asking MPs who were baying for Gachagua’s blood to go slow on the plan.
At that time, the government faced the crisis of Gen Z protests and it was felt it wouldn’t have been politically viable to pursue the ouster bid.
Signs of Gachagua’s compounding woes became clear last week when 48 MPs from the former Central province threw their weight behind Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki as their kingpin.
This was barely a day after 21 MPs from Mt Kenya east declared that Kindiki was their link to President Ruto’s administration…CLICK HERE FOR MORE ARTICLE>>>
