A section of Mt Kenya leaders have come out guns blazing, and told off anyone dreaming to impeach their new kingpin Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua popularly known as Riggy G.
The threat to impeach the DP was fronted this week by Bumula MP Jack Wamboka who accuses him of leaning too much to his Mt Kenya backyard.
“Every time Rigathi speaks you wonder whether he is the Deputy President of Kenya or Deputy President of the Kikuyu republic,” the MP said, and went on to threaten “I will bring a motion to impeach you, discuss your conduct and impeach you.”
This statement has touched off raw nerves in Riggy G’s backyard, where leaders have vowed to defend him while describing the threat as ‘hot air.’
“Let them bring it on,” said Mutahi Kahiga, the Nyeri Governor, “anyone dreaming that they can easily impeach our Deputy President doesn’t know what they are talking about.”
Impeachment of a Deputy President is, however, not a walk in the park, given the majority MPs, Kenya Kwanza has in the National Assembly.
By the time of writing this article, Gachagua’s Kenya Kwanza coalition had 177 MPs in the National Assembly against Opposition Azimio’s 157.
This excludes two pending by-elections in Garissa Township and Kandara.
And so for Wamboka’s motion to succeed, it must have the support of at least a third of all the MPs.
