{"id":99439,"date":"2024-10-16T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/gachagua-impeachment-security-beefed-up-around-parliament\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T13:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:03:23","slug":"gachagua-impeachment-security-beefed-up-around-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/gachagua-impeachment-security-beefed-up-around-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Gachagua Impeachment: Security beefed up around Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-1\">\n<p><strong>Security around the\u00a0precincts of\u00a0Parliament\u00a0was beefed up Wednesday as the Senate began the impeachment trial of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Uniformed and non-uniformed police officers\u00a0guarded the two main gates of the senate and the National Assembly and only lawmakers and Parliamentary staff were allowed access.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament road was also closed off from motorists and pedestrians who were diverted to use alternative routes. Roadblocks were erected at the Holy Family Basilica and parliament roundabouts<\/p>\n<p>The Senate convened Wednesday to hear and determine one of the most significant political hearings of recent times the impeachment trial of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.<\/p>\n<p>The motion which has shaken the country politically\u00a0was formally submitted to the Senate after being passed in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The proceedings\u00a0will scrutinize 11 grounds laid out against Gachagua, with all eyes now on the Senate to see how the house will navigate the matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/gachagua-impeachment-security-beefed-up-around-parliament\/\">Gachagua Impeachment: Security beefed up around Parliament<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/gachagua-impeachment-security-beefed-up-around-parliament\/\">Gachagua Impeachment: Security beefed up around Parliament<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security around the\u00a0precincts of\u00a0Parliament\u00a0was beefed up Wednesday as the Senate began the impeachment trial of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Uniformed and non-uniformed police officers\u00a0guarded the two main gates of the senate and the National Assembly and only lawmakers and Parliamentary staff were allowed access. Parliament road was also closed off from motorists and pedestrians who [&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-99439","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\/99439","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=99439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}