{"id":99563,"date":"2024-10-17T13:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/17\/muite-tells-senate-dp-gachagua-taken-ill-very-sick-admitted-to-hospital\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T13:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:03:34","slug":"muite-tells-senate-dp-gachagua-taken-ill-very-sick-admitted-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/muite-tells-senate-dp-gachagua-taken-ill-very-sick-admitted-to-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Muite tells Senate DP Gachagua taken ill, \u2018very sick,\u2019 admitted to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 17 \u2013 Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua failed to appear for his cross-examination in his impeachment trial on Thursday afternoon, leaving the Senate waiting as his whereabouts remained unclear. <\/p>\n<p>His absence left his legal team scrambling, with lead counsel Paul Muite eventually informing the House that Gachagua had fallen ill. <\/p>\n<p>Senior Counsel Muite explained that he had received the information on short notice and requested time to assess Gachagua\u2019s condition before proceeding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllow me time to go and visit him and asses his situation and report back before the House at 5.00 PM,\u201d Muite said.<\/p>\n<p>Muite\u2019s submission prompted Speaker Kingi to remind him that the impeachment motion was time-bound, leaving the House in confusion. <\/p>\n<p>However, the National Assembly\u2019s lawyer Eric Gumbo opposed Muite\u2019s request and pushed for the trial to continue in Gachagua\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Gachagua attended every session of the trial on Wednesday and Thursday morning, facing 11 charges, all of which he has denied.<\/p>\n<p>After consultations, Speaker Kingi instructed Gachagua\u2019s lawyers to return to the House at 5:00 PM with Gachagua, who will then be called to testify.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 17 \u2013 Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua failed to appear for his cross-examination in his impeachment trial on Thursday afternoon, leaving the Senate waiting as his whereabouts remained unclear. His absence left his legal team scrambling, with lead counsel Paul Muite eventually informing the House that Gachagua had fallen ill. Senior Counsel Muite [&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-99563","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\/99563","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=99563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}