Tuesday, October 15, 2024 – Senate Speaker Amason Kingi has declared that the Senate will not heed any court order regarding the impeachment of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
Gachagua is
banking on the courts to save him from the looming impeachment.
At least 26
petitions have been filed in various courts seeking to stop the impeachment
process.
On Monday,
Chief Justice Martha Koome constituted a three-judge bench to hear and
determine the cases challenging the impeachment process.
The bench
consists of Justices Eric Ogola, Anthony Mrima, and Freda Mugambi.
The National
Assembly voted last Tuesday to impeach him.
Speaking
on Monday, Kingi asserted that parliament cannot be prevented
from discharging its constitutional functions by dint of a court order.
“Whether or
not there was in fact a Court Order in this matter does not matter, nothing
turns on it, the result is the same; which is that Parliament cannot be
prevented from the discharge of its constitutional functions by dint of an
order of court,” he said.
The
Kenyan DAILY POST