Kericho Senator Reflects Day Senate Voted To Impeach Kindiki As Deputy Speaker
As Kithure Kindiki officially resumes office as Kenya’s new Deputy President, Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot has remembered a private exchange with the professor from a time Kindiki was ousted.
It was May 2020, when Kindiki, then serving as Deputy Speaker of the Senate, faced a vote of no confidence from his fellow legislators.
Speaking during the Senate session, Kindiki decried the ouster as “an elitist triviality powered by petty, divisive, and vindictive politics.”
Kindiki together with the then Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen were accused of attempting to undermine the transfer of some Nairobi County government functions to the national government.
Cheruiyot, one of Kindiki’s close supporters, recalls the rough moment as Kindiki was being sworn in as the new deputy president.
“On the day Senate voted to oust Prof. Kindiki as Deputy Speaker, I felt terribly gutted. I walked up to him to say sorry. But Kindiki’s response was surprising. Far from disappointment or bitterness, Kindiki instead offered his ally words of calm resolve,”
“He looked at me straight in the eye and said, ‘You think God brought us this far, to terminate us at Deputy Speaker? Please relax. There are better days ahead,’” Cheruiyot recounted.
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