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In a contentious late-night voting session at the National Assembly on Tuesday, October 8, the lawmakers voted to confirm all eleven charges against the embattled deputy president.
Despite her hopes of surviving the impeachment motion, Kawira fell short as the Kenya Kwanza Alliance MPs rallied enough support to remove him from office.
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In his final orders National Assembly Moses Wetang’ula said the vote outcome having attained the two-thirds (233 votes), the House resolves to impeach the deputy president.
The matter will then be taken to the Senate, whose speaker will convene a seven-day meeting to review the charges against Gachagua.
Gachagua has become the first deputy president to be removed in this way since the possibility was introduced in Kenya’s revised 2010 constitution.
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In his final orders National Assembly Moses Wetang’ula said the vote outcome having attained the two-thirds (233 votes), the House resolves to impeach the deputy president.
https://ceddycrystalmedia.co.ke/: Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua impeachedThe matter will then be taken to the Senate, whose speaker will convene a seven-day meeting to review the charges against Gachagua.
Gachagua has become the first deputy president to be removed in this way since the possibility was introduced in Kenya’s revised 2010 constitution.
