(18 Oct 2024)
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Nairobi, Kenya – 18 October 2024
1. Various exteriors of Kenya’s senate building
2. Various of security officers outside senate building
3. Close of Basil Salim, resident of Nairobi
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Basil Salim, resident of Nairobi:
"It happened in the night and today in the morning most of the people were shocked because when some of them went to sleep they did not know what the results would be. But again, you know, politics is the way it is, they say it is a dirty game and therefore it is not a surprise that it happens like that. So everything is pre-planned before it gets to where people see it. So the activity, the way we saw it, it’s like everything was done in (the) boardroom."
5. Various of people in streets of Nairobi
6. Mid of man reading newspaper with headline reading (English): "Fired after 766 days"
7. Various of newspaper headlines
8. Mid of Norah Obed, resident of Nairobi
9. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Norah Obed, resident of Nairobi:
"It was not fair for the deputy president to be impeached in his absence because he was ailing, according to the reports they gave Kenyans. But it is also okay so that it can be a lesson to others who lie about being sick. He is the only one who knows if he was sick or not."
10. Various of security officers outside senate building checking vehicles getting into senate
11. Various of streets of Nairobi
STORYLINE:
Residents in Nairobi expressed their shock on Friday after Kenya’s Senate voted to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office in an impeachment motion tabled in parliament over allegations of corruption and ethnic division.
Senators approved five of 11 grounds for impeachment against Gachagua, making him the first sitting deputy president to be removed from office in impeachment proceedings.
The vote on the first of the five counts was 54-13, well above the two-thirds majority required to convict and remove him from office.
The lower house of Parliament, the National Assembly, voted 282-44 last week to impeach the deputy president.
"It happened in the night and today in the morning most of the people were shocked," Nairobi resident, Basil Salim, said, reacting to the news.
Gachagua had pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the 11 charges and had been expected to be cross-examined by lawyers from the Assembly in the afternoon.
But the hearing was briefly adjourned after Gachagua was hospitalized and his lawyers asked for a pause to give him until Tuesday to appear before the chamber.
However, Assembly lawyers said Gachagua’s defence already had been presented and that the Senate was bound by the constitution to continue the proceedings.
Gachagua faced allegations that included corruption, inciting ethnic divisions and support for anti-government protests that saw demonstrators storm the Parliament.
President William Ruto on Friday nominated the country’s interior minister, Kithure Kindiki, as his new deputy with the assembly expected to vote to approve the nomination.
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