Inside Deputy President Gachagua impeachment plan and ‘His political fate’
Barely two years down the line after the general election in 2022 which brought President Ruto and his deputy rigatoni Gachagua to office, now the ship has taken a different direction.
A passionate journey that saw the two winning the presidency under the hustler narrative. Deputy president Rigathi Gachagua is now oil the receiving end, with an impeachment motion against him underway, and will be table anytime soon at the parliament.
It is now clearly confirmed from a number of parliamentarians that the impeachment motion is underway. “It is true there is an impeachment motion against the Deputy president and as member of parliament for Kikuyu I have already appended my signature to it and I will support that impeachment motion to stop a process where the government is being undermined and sabotaged from within government ” Kimani Ichungwa, Mp for Kikuyu constituency said.
The impeachment motion as aired on NTV TV contained 10 counts leveled against the Deputy President Gachagua and now the man awaits his fate from the outcome of what will happen in the parliament.
First charge against him is that the DP is accused threatening the president. HE is said to have literally banged a desk in sheer anger at a meeting with his boss President Ruto, after the later denied him 8 Billions shillings that Gachagua had seed to walk away and pave way for Ruto to appoint his deputy after their marriage turned hell. It is said that Gachagua arrived at 8 billions after multiplying total votes Ruto acquired in the Mt. Kenya region by 400/ shillings.
Te second charge leveled against hi is corruption and abuse of office. The dP is said to have accumulated billions of money within the two years, whereas his salary is barely 12M per year and therefore he should have made only 24M in the two years in office.
Other charges include promoting tribalism, leaking state secrets , sponsoring ‘violent’ gens protests, Threatening, intimidation and publicly condemning government officials among other charges.
By Hussein Waiyaki
