Section of Mt Kenya leaders urge President Ruto to stop Gachagua impeachment

A section of Mount Kenya leaders are now blaming President William Ruto for the woes that are bedevilling his Deputy Rigathi  Gachagua.

While vowing to oppose the impeachment motion laid to the floor of the National Assembly Tuesday afternoon, MPs from Murang’a County asked the President to intervene and stop the impeachment.

Led by Murang’a Senator Joe Nyutu, the MPs challenged the President to stop the ‘persecution’ against his Deputy.

“We know that he has the ability to stop this motion, we know parliament is independent, but MPs listen to their party leader,” Nyutu said.

“We have not seen anything that Rigathi has done, that Ruto as DP never did to President Uhuru… Uhuru never tried to impeach him, this is something that we do not take lightly, and we know that without his blessing this motion would never have been tabled.” He added.

While warning the ODM Party which has been incorporated in the broad based government not to support the impeachment motion, Nyutu said it would appear that the only reason they were brought in government is to deal with Rigathi.

He said, “For us divorcing Rigathi is divorcing the whole mountain.”

The leaders pointed out that the raging issues on the impeachment debate is simply a debate between Gachagua and UDA MPs were mainly internal party issues which can be adjudicated by the internal dispute mechanisms.

“He will be condemned unheard. It’s on that basis that we are seeking and beseeching our fellow MPs to give dispute resolution mechanism a chance,” said Kigumo MP Joseph Kamau.

The motion seeking to impeach the DP was formally tabled by Kibwezi West MP Mwengi Mutuse this afternoon accusing him of 11 accounts.

The motion that was signed by 291 members was approved by Speaker Moses Wetangula for having met the threshold.