Chaos erupt in in Mt Kenya counties amid public participation on Gachagua impeachment
Chaos erupt in Nyeri and Kiambu counties as public participation on Gachagua impeachment begins
Chaos erupt in Nyeri and Kiambu counties as public participation on Gachagua impeachment begins.
A public participation exercise on the impeachment of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was on Friday temporarily suspended after chaos erupted at a venue in Nyeri County.
During the demonstrations, the residents dismissed the calls by the National Assembly to impeach the deputy president claiming that the second in command was elected alongside the president.
In the videos shared online the residents lit bonfires outside the public participation centre prompting security officers to intervene.
“No Rigathi, no Ruto. Don’t try to touch the mountain. We are strongly behind Gachagua,” the residents chanted as they called a halt in public participation claiming that the deputy president’s impeachment bid was politically orchestrated.
While protesting, the angy locals barricaded the road that leads to Nyeri town, paralysing transport and business services within the area.
However, the demonstrations were cut short after more police officers were deployed to the area.
Despite police intervention, the adamant locals vowed to continue protesting even as they called on President William Ruto and DP Gachagua to resolve their differences internally.
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A similar situation was witnessed in Kiambu County after locals disrupted an ongoing public participation exercise to vent their frustrations at the National Assembly’s imminent decision to oust DP Gachagua. “This is like a marriage and if Gachagua leaves, he quits alongside Ruto,” claimed a resident.
Similarly, a section of the residents expressed dissatisfaction over how the public participation exercise was being undertaken claiming that the exercise had already been compromised by the fact that it was undertaken in paperwork.
“If they could have done it purposively by allowing us to access their website and we vote electronically it would look credible, but with this, they can change it as these papers go to parliament,” claimed another Kiambu resident.
Meanwhile, the public participation exercise which formally commenced today, October 4, is set to end on October 5 with Kenyans allowed to express their views in line with Article 182 of the Constitution which mandates Parliamentary facilitation of citizen engagement in such processes.
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