Friday, October 18, 20214 –Interior CS Prof. Kithure Kindiki may be sworn in anytime at the Statehouse by President William Ruto.
This is after Members of Parliament agreed, in their sitting to day, with President William Ruto’s new nominee Kithure Kindiki, following the removal from office through an impeachment of Mr. Rigathi Gachagua.
“As you have rightly said that we’ll take a vote…when I sit in this house we are in concurrence that professor Kindiki is the deputy president. Why don’t we just vote by acclamation?” MP Raphael Wanjala posed.
Kibwezi West Member of Parliament MP Mwengi Mutuse, who moved the motion that saw DP Gachagua ousted, took the opportunity to thank both the MPs and Members of the Senate for agreeing with his charges to replace Gachagua with a more neutral and acceptable leader.
He stated that he had finally been vindicated and that he will go down books of history as a young MP who helped remove a sitting deputy president.
“Thank you colleagues at the National Assembly and the Senate for approving my motion of impeachment against former DP Rigathi Gachagua. I am proud that I will go down in the annals of history as the first Kenyan to impeach a sitting deputy president. It took both bravery and courage. It was a duty for my country. I love you and love Kenya,” MP Mutuse stated.
At the same time, as this was taking place, a Gazette Notice was published recognising Prof. Kindiki as the new nominee to take over from where Gachagua had left.
Gachagua and his lawyers led by Paul Muite have vowed to resolve the matter in court saying the whole exercise of impeachment was marred by irregularities and that it cannot meet the threshold as per the Kenyan Constitution.
The team still believes that it will be able to overturn the recent events and their client will resume office as Ruto’s substantive deputy.