President William Ruto’s ally and majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wah has come out to dismiss claims of impeachment against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua after his interview.
Speaking after the burial of his family friend and former employee George Owiro at Pap Nyadiel village in Alego Usonga Constituency, the Majority Leader said that the Impeachment motion allegations are sympathy seeking gimmicks.
According to Ichung’wah, the interview and remarks by Gachagua was an attempt to incite people from the Mt. Kenya region against their Memers of Parliament by claiming that they are betraying him through an impeachment.
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“As a Leader of Majority, I can tell you there has never been an impeachment plan against him. That has been a creation of those that he walks around with. It’s a sympathy seeking gimmick to try and incite people from the Mt. Kenya region against MPs.”
“If you listened to him, he passed a veiled threat to Kenyans, saying that an impeachment motion would cause political instability, or rather he framed it’s about stability of the nation. What he meant, is that he is trying to threaten that should there be one, there will be political instability.”
However, the lawmaker said that any MP is at liberty to bring an impeachment motion against the DP, President, Cabinet Secretary or any official, pointing out that there are no exemptions
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“No MP has ever proposed, even to collect signatures. It’s only the DP who’s been speaking about his impeachment. Probably, he’s calling for it or he might imagine that he can incite one region of the country against the MPs. I’ve put my chest forward to defend the MPs.”