Kenya’s Ruto nominates interior minister as new deputy president | Politics News | The Round Table Kenya’s president has nominated Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki as his forward-looking deputy, a day after the Senate selected to impeach Rigathi Gachagua.
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Kindiki, 52, had been a frontrunner for deputy president during the 2022 elections. Like Gachagua, he hails from the vote-rich Mount Kenya region.
Kindiki is a close ally of the president and has announced the interior ministry post through Ruto’s two years as leader. He previously served as senator for Tharaka-Nithi County.
Gachagua had filed a court application on Friday seeking to stop his replacement, the Reuters news agency reported, citing court documents.
In an unprecedented move, a majority of lawmakers in the National Assembly most recent week selected to impeach Gachagua on 11 charges, which included corruption, undermining the government and stirring ethnic hatred.
As a result, he lost retirement benefits and cannot publicise public office again.
The Senate elected to waive him on Thursday despite Gachagua’s absence from the proceedings as a result of illness.
His lawyer Paul Muite reported Gachagua had been hospitalised with “intense chest pains” and had advocated the Senate to pause proceedings for a few days.
Gachagua, who has maintained he is not guilty, had launched a legal oppose against the impeachment proceedings in the High Court, but Judge Eric Ogola disclosed the process could go ahead.
He had upheld Ruto in his 2022 election acquire and facilitated achieve a huge hinder of selects from populous central Kenya. He has spoken of being sidelined amid widespread announces in local media that he has fallen out with Ruto as political alliances have shifted.
Ruto sacked most of his cabinet in July and appointed members of the opposition to what he summoned a unity government after nationwide rallies against tax increases in which more than 50 people were killed.
Regards to Al Jazeera
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Published 10/18/2024