High Court Rules on Another Gachagua Case to Block Impeachment
High Court Rules on Another Gachagua petition that was filed by Cleophas Malala, former United Democratic Alliance (UDA) secretary general.
Malala had moved to court seeking orders to block the impeachment motion against the DP, for the second time.
High Court judge Bahati Mwamuye, however, declined to grant interim orders stopping the impeachment proceedings.
Malala, in his petition, argued that the composition of both the Senate and the National Assembly violated constitutional gender rules, as outlined in Articles 27(8) and 81(b) of the Kenyan Constitution, which mandate that no more than two-thirds of elective bodies be composed of the same gender.
The ruling comes as the deputy president is expected to appear before the parliament to defend himself over the allegations levelled against him in the impeachment motion tabled in parliament.
Through his lawyers, claimed that the motion to impeach him was without fact and a misrepresentation of material facts.
Further, the second in command in his petition questioned the National Assembly’s allocation of minimal time for public participation.
Embattled DP Gachagua accused National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula and his deputy Gladys Boss Shollei for conspiring to oust him following their public utterances that showed they were taking sides.
“The intended impeachment process against me essentially seeks to overturn the sovereign will of the majority of Kenyans who voted for me to be the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya,” Gachagua claimed in his petition.
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