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Gachagua impeachment reveals hazy line between House, Executive

Mwengi Mutuse, Kibwezi West MP and mover of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s impeachment motion debates the motion at the National Assembly, Parliament, Nairobi. October 8th,2024 [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The impeachment motion against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has opened up complexities and behind-the-scenes that may be involved in political processes.

Currently, questions have been raised on the blurred line between the Executive and Parliament and whether each arm independently discharges its respective mandate, as the latter is described as a non-performing House.

Gachagua has on a number of times claimed that a section of MPs were bribed and intimidated to support an impeachment motion against him.

At one point, Gachagua made reference to meetings held at the house of a Cabinet Secretary presumably to discuss how to remove him from office but did not give names of those behind it.