{"id":99141,"date":"2024-10-14T08:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T08:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/live-senate-begins-governor-mutais-impeachment-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T08:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T08:03:34","slug":"live-senate-begins-governor-mutais-impeachment-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/live-senate-begins-governor-mutais-impeachment-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Senate begins Governor Mutai\u2019s impeachment trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 14 \u2014 The Senate has commenced the impeachment trial of Kericho Governor Eric Mutai ahead of a vote on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senate Speaker Amason Kingi flagged off the proceedings at 10.40 am on Monday with legal teams representing both Governor Mutai and Kericho County Assembly appearing.<\/p>\n<p>Counsel for the County Assembly said the sub-national legislature will present several witness accounts including a protected witness codenamed \u2018Kericho daughter\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Mutai\u2019s lead lawyer Katwa Kigen also said he will present witnesses including the Governor.<\/p>\n<p>The legal team however said it will raise applications and an objection citing a court order suspending the proceedings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 14 \u2014 The Senate has commenced the impeachment trial of Kericho Governor Eric Mutai ahead of a vote on Tuesday. Senate Speaker Amason Kingi flagged off the proceedings at 10.40 am on Monday with legal teams representing both Governor Mutai and Kericho County Assembly appearing. Counsel for the County Assembly said the [&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-99141","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\/99141","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=99141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}