Kenya’s Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Thursday filed a petition to the high court in Nairobi seeking to halt an impeachment process launched against him by lawmakers earlier this week, documents showed.
Allies of Kenyan President William Ruto tabled a motion in parliament on Tuesday to impeach Gachagua, accusing him of stirring ethnic hatred, undermining the government and amassing a large and unexplained property portfolio.
Gachagua says he has been sidelined and has denied accusations by Ruto allies that he was behind violent anti-government protests earlier this year.
Gachagua said the impeachment motion was based on falsehoods that constituted a “choreographed political lynching designed to defeat the sovereign will of the Kenyan people expressed at the presidential election held August 2022”, according to the petition documents.
Peoplesmind