Gachagua impeachment a ploy to distract Kenyans from SHIF, Adani deals - MP Wamuchomba

According to MP Wamuchomba, the government is using the Deputy President as a sacrificial lamb to sway Kenyans from contentious matters including the controversial Adani takeover of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).

The legislator further argued that the government is avoiding admitting failure in achieving its promises and has opted to oust Gachagua with ill-founded accusations.

"We are being kept busy with Gachagua's impeachment so that Adani deal sails through, the [Social Health Insurance Fund] SHIF transition, with all the irregularities to pass. We are being diverted from key issues in this country," she said speaking to Citizen TV on Monday.

"They are looking for someone to blame. Look at the grounds they are bringing. They are all flimsy excuses without any solid reasoning. Somebody is very worried that the GenZs have gone calm and they will erupt again because the issues that took them to the streets have not been addressed."

Amongst the charges floated against him, Gachagua is being accused of violating Article 10 as his accusers argue that his public utterances have been inciteful, reckless inflammatory and capable of stirring ethnic hatred.

Wamuchomba argued that accusing the DP of supporting his tribal backyard, the Mt Kenya region, is an ill-informed move since he is not the first leader to politically back the region.

"Gachagua is not the first to defend Mt. Kenya region. Uhuru Kenyatta defended the region fiercely for 10 years. Why didn't you say that he is a tribalist?" she posed.

She alleged that leaders have been abandoning the pertinent issues facing their constituents and instead meet in hotels to plot how they can oust the embattled DP.

"Does it mean that MPs have nothing else to do other than parade themselves in hotels every night to scheme how to remove one person? Every community in parliament have been going to hotels in cocoons of 10, 20 people," she claimed.

The motion of impeachment, as confirmed by Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah, will be tabled on Tuesday 

Tabling the motion will require 233 MPs to support it to sail through, with reports indicating that as of the close of business Sunday, 302 members of parliament had appended their signatures.

Other accusations made against DP Gachagua include violation of articles 147, 148,174,186 and 189 which speak to his conduct and responsibility as the principal assistant to the President.

He is also accused of corruptly and unlawfully acquiring assets using taxpayers' money. The assets are said to be spread in Nyeri, Nairobi and Kilifi counties.

If the motion sails through, National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula will communicate the resolution within two days to Senate Speaker Amason Kingi for action.