Dissolve government – Ruto told after court ruling on Gachagua’s impeachment case
Pressure is now being mounted on President William Ruto to dissolve government following the Court of Appeal's decision on Gachagua's impeachment case.
Pressure is now being mounted on President William Ruto to dissolve government following the Court of Appeal’s decision on Gachagua’s impeachment case.
A trio of appellate court judges ruled that Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu erred in her empaneling of a High Court judge bench that threw away former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua’s conservatory orders that had stopped his replacement.
The judges ordered that Chief Justice Martha Koome constitute a panel within 14 days which would determine the petitions challenging Gachagua’s impeachment.
The landmark ruling has brought a new lease of life in Gachagua’s camp.
His allies now want the president to dissolve his administration and seek a fresh mandate from Kenyans, as, according to them, the appellate court ruling suggested an illegitimate regime in power.
Former Kakamega senator Cleophas Malala argued that Ruto’s administration had lost its credibility and was hence a “shell of a government”.
Seeming to divert from the merits of Gachagua’s case and the Court of Appeal ruling, Malala implied that Gachagua’s unceremonious exit from office rendered Ruto helpless and left him with a team that cannot help him achieve his manifesto.
“Inevitably, the current administration has irretrievably lost legitimacy.
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What we now have is not a government but a hollow shell; oblong in shape, directionless in ideology, and incoherent in structure. A staggering majority of Cabinet Secretaries vehemently opposed the President’s 2022 campaign agenda and are now shamefully pretending to implement it without conviction or consistency,” he said.
Malala, on observing that the elections management body was almost being reconstituted, called for the dissolution of the Kenya Kwanza government and for Kenyans to elect a new government.
This, according to him, would be an indication of Ruto’s best interest for the country.
“Now that the process of reconstituting the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is underway, it is my unequivocal view that the president must act in the highest interest of the Republic by dissolving the government and seek a fresh mandate from the people this time with his newly assembled, patchwork coalition of so-called “broad-based partners,” he said.
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