{"id":72105,"date":"2024-07-30T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T11:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/kahiga-dares-gachagua-impeachment-schemers-vows-far-reaching-consequences\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T11:11:42","slug":"kahiga-dares-gachagua-impeachment-schemers-vows-far-reaching-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kahiga-dares-gachagua-impeachment-schemers-vows-far-reaching-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Kahiga dares Gachagua impeachment schemers, vows \u2018far-reaching\u2019 consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NYERI, Kenya, Jul 30 \u2014 Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga has challaged lawmakers plotting to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachaguapromising \u201cfar-reaching\u201d consequences from Mt Kenya region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking while inducting newly-employed county workers in Nyeri town on Tuesday, Kahiga termed the impeachment plot an affront to the people of the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to tell those MPs spending sleepless nights planning how to impeach Gachagua to bring the motion to the National Assembly. We will deal with it but they must be aware that this will alter the political equation of this region,\u201d said Kahiga.<\/p>\n<p>Kahiga was reacting to reports that some Members of Parliament from the region were meeting at night to craft an impeachment motion against Gachagua on grounds of going against government position on the FInance Bill 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers, according to mutiple sources were planning to file the motion after vetting of Cabinet nominees who include members of the opposition ODM party.<\/p>\n<p>Kahiga dismissed accusations against Gachagua as \u201cfalse and frivolous\u201d saying the DP\u2019s position, if true, was premised on him \u201clistening to the ground\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose saying Gachagua erred by silently opposing this Bill should instead thank him for listening to the ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost Kenyans were opposed to the Finance Bill and that is why the President rejected it,\u201d Kahiga stated reffering to President William Ruto\u2019s decision to ditch the Bill despite whipping UDA-allied lawmakers to pass it .<\/p>\n<p>On alleged plans to form a political party before the 2027 polls, Kahiga said Gachagua;s supporters are firmly in UDA and will not decamp before the end of the term of the current administrtion.<\/p>\n<p>He however said Gachagua\u2019s camp will consider a party in 2027 \u201cif situations dictate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot move away from a government we helped to form,\u201d Kahiga said adding Gachagua\u2019s camp will \u201cfight from within\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYERI, Kenya, Jul 30 \u2014 Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga has challaged lawmakers plotting to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachaguapromising \u201cfar-reaching\u201d consequences from Mt Kenya region. Speaking while inducting newly-employed county workers in Nyeri town on Tuesday, Kahiga termed the impeachment plot an affront to the people of the region. \u201cI want to tell those MPs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}