Ignore MPs and focus on Senators for survival; Lawyer advices DP Gachagua
Lawyer Donald Kipkorir advices DP Gachagua to ignore MPs and focus on Senators for survival over his impeachment
Lawyer Donald Kipkorir advices DP Gachagua to ignore MPs and focus on Senators for survival over his impeachment.
Lawyer Donald Kipkorir has given Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua a number of tips, which he says will help him surmount the career-threatening impeachment motion facing him.
In his opinion, lawyer Kipkorir opines that there’s still room for Gachagua to forestall the impending attempt to hound him out of office barely two years after being voted in through a joint ticket with President William Ruto.
First, Kipkorir says Gachagua should not attend the October 8 hearing of the impeachment motion.
“Free advice to Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Don’t attend the impeachment proceedings in the National Assembly. Ignore them. Send your lawyers to pooh-pooh the allegations,” he said in a statement on X.
The lawyer said the DP should instead focus on marshalling sufficient support in the Senate, which will act as the trial court should the National Assembly pass the impeachment motion.
“Read impeachment proceedings in the US. Many impeachments from the lower House ended in the Senate. Focus on the Senate. It is the Impeachment Trial Court. You only need 17 senators to get acquittal,” the lawyer said.
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The notice of impeachment was tabled on Tuesday by Kibwezi West MP Mwengi Mutuse, who cited 11 grounds upon which he wants the DP sent packing, including alleged suspicious acquisition of Sh5.2 billion and insubordination to the president.
Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetang’ula set October 8 as the hearing date but directed that all 47 counties conduct public participation on Friday, October 4.
Meanwhile, all three attempts by Gachagua to stop the National Assembly from proceeding with the impeachment motion flopped after the courts declined to issue interim orders halting the process.
His attempt to stop public participation was also unsuccessful after the court declined to issue interim orders and set October 9 for determination of the matter.
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