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Kericho Governor Erick Mutai survives impeachment

Kericho Governor Erick Mutai survived impeachment after 34 Senators voted to support a preliminary objection raised by his defense

Lawyer Katwa Kigen, leading the governor's defence, told the Senate that the two-thirds threshold had not been met when the County Assembly impeached him.

The Senate got into a debate based on that technicality and finally voted with a result of 10 Senators opposing the preliminary objection.

Mutai had denied all the charges brought against him by Members of Kericho County Assembly who had voted to kick him out of office.

Kigen leading Governor Erick Mutai defence team had requested Senate Speaker Amason Kingi to terminate the impeachment motion since it did not reach the two thirds threshold which is 31.3 . He argued that the Governor had been impeached by only 31 MCA out of 47 MCAs instead of 32 MCAs or more.