The Kenyan Senate has impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. The legislators voted Thursday evening regardless of a plea from Gachagua’s lawyer, Paul Muite, to postpone the proceedings. Muite said Gachagua was hospitalised after falling very sick hours before the vote was set to hold.

Kenya's Senate will proceed with impeachment hearings and a vote on whether to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Thursday, the senate speaker said, despite Gachagua's absence from the proceedings after his lawyer said he had fallen ill.

Kenyan Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has failed to appear in the Senate to testify at his impeachment trial, with his lawyer saying that he has been taken ill.

The Kenyan senate has voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. The lawmakers voted Thursday evening despite a plea from Paul Muite, Gachagua’s lawyer, to postpone the proceedings. According to Muite, Gachagua was hospitalised after falling very sick hours before the vote was set to hold.

Senators to proceed with DP ouster trial in his absence Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR KENYA |  The Senate on Thursday voted to continue with the impeachment trial of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in his absence.

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Kenya's Senate opened a second day of hearings on Thursday ahead of a vote on whether to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office over charges he embezzled public funds, stirred ethnic hatred and undermined the government,

Kenyan senators voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, upholding the National Assembly’s decision to oust him after he was accused of pilfering public funds and making inflammatory statements to stir ethnic hatred.

Kenya's Senate on Thursday voted to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office by impeachment on the first of 11 charges levelled against him, in an unprecedented move that risks pushing the country towards a political crisis.