{"id":99275,"date":"2024-10-15T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/onyonka-assures-senate-to-focus-on-evidence-presented-against-gachagua\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:03:31","slug":"onyonka-assures-senate-to-focus-on-evidence-presented-against-gachagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/onyonka-assures-senate-to-focus-on-evidence-presented-against-gachagua\/","title":{"rendered":"Onyonka assures Senate to focus on evidence presented against Gachagua"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 15 \u2013 Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka has assured Kenyans that the Senate will focus on evidence tabled against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua Impeachment motion\u00a0 during it\u2019s special sittings scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Onyonka asserted that the Senate will look at evidence regarding each accusation laid against Gachagua and not hearsay.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the Senate, we will look at each accusation laid. If you say the Deputy President\u00a0 has participated in disinheriting his brother\u2019s children, give us the evidence and not hearsay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The senator promised\u00a0 that he will only take part in discussing the Gachagua ouster motion based on facts backed up with evidence.<\/p>\n

He stated that no decision will be agreed upon by the House without considering\u00a0 solid evidence regarding charges facing the embattled Deputy President.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you say he is tribal when he gave names of members from his community, chances are those facts do exist, but isn\u2019t that what the president has done when he appointed Principal Secretaries from his region who are over 100?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n

The legislator who termed Gachagua Impeachment battle\u00a0 as a consequence of dysfunctional regime stated that both him and President William Ruto should\u00a0 iron out their differences.<\/p>\n

Onyonka said some of the allegations facing Gachagua including tribalism don\u2019t hold solid grounds for his removal.<\/p>\n

He argued out\u00a0 that the Deputy President is part of the Kenya Kwanza government which embraces ethnic politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we in the Senate are looking at this impeachment we don\u2019t see Gachagua as a failure, a tribalist, we see him as a consequence of this system which has become so dysfunctional that all we do when we seek power is to take state resources and share them between our friends, relatives and tribes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Senator Onyonka added \u201d The Deputh President\u00a0 is an accident out of us getting rid of Meritocracy that we now reward Cronyism!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chief Justice Martha Koome constituted a three-judge bench on Monday\u00a0 to hear and determine Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua\u2019s petition challenging his impeachment.<\/p>\n

In her directive, Justice Koome assigned Justice Eric Ogola to preside over the case, with Justices Antony Mrima and Dr. Freda Mugambi as part of the panel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The judges are expected to hear Gachagua\u2019s petition alongside five other petitions that have been filed challenging the impeachment process as the DP is set to face the Senate on Wednesday and Thursday, to defend himself against all the 11 charges levelled against him<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 15 \u2013 Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka has assured Kenyans that the Senate will focus on evidence tabled against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua Impeachment motion\u00a0 during it\u2019s special sittings scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. Onyonka asserted that the Senate will look at evidence regarding each accusation laid against Gachagua and not hearsay. \u201cAt […]<\/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-99275","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\/99275","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=99275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}