{"id":99588,"date":"2024-10-17T16:03:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/17\/gachaguas-lawyers-walk-out-after-senate-rejects-trial-delay\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:03:32","slug":"gachaguas-lawyers-walk-out-after-senate-rejects-trial-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/gachaguas-lawyers-walk-out-after-senate-rejects-trial-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Gachagua\u2019s lawyers walk out after Senate rejects trial delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 17 \u2013 Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua\u2019s lawyers walked out of the Senate on Thursday after their request to postpone the impeachment trial to October 22, 2024, was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Lead counsel Paul Muite had appealed to the Speaker Amason Kingi to suspend the sittings to Saturday, citing Gachagua\u2019s hospitalization due to severe chest pains as grounds for the delay. <\/p>\n<p>However, the Senate dismissed the request and instead voted to continue the trial on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the decision, Gachagua\u2019s legal team sought permission to withdraw from delivering their closing arguments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we do not have clear instruction from our client, we seek leave not to make our closing statement,\u201d Muite said.<\/p>\n<p>After the walkout, Speaker Kingi permitted the National Assembly to deliver their closing statements in Gachagua\u2019s impeachment trial, where he faces eleven charges, all of which he has denied.<\/p>\n<p>Once the statements are concluded, Senators will debate the motion before voting on Gachagua\u2019s impeachment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 17 \u2013 Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua\u2019s lawyers walked out of the Senate on Thursday after their request to postpone the impeachment trial to October 22, 2024, was rejected. Lead counsel Paul Muite had appealed to the Speaker Amason Kingi to suspend the sittings to Saturday, citing Gachagua\u2019s hospitalization due to severe chest [&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-99588","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\/99588","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=99588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}