Rigathi Gachagua has filed a petition to try and stop the tabling of the impeachment motion against him.
The DP’s petition comes hours before a public participation exercise against his impeachment begins.
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has filed a petition at the High Court seeking the suspension of the impeachment motion lodged against him at the National Assembly.
According to the DP’s lawyers, the motion to impeach him was founded on deceit and misrepresentation of material facts.
Gachagua’s petition also accused National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula and his deputy Gladys Shollei of bias for publicly declaring their stand on how they would prefer Gachagua’s impeachment to go.
The petition continues to claim that the move to dismiss Gachagua was unconstitutional and peddled to the public in a bid to achieve unjustified purposes.
Further accusing the National Assembly of allocating limited time for public participation which he termed as grossly insufficient to facilitate any meaningful and reasonable public engagement.
This petition follows three other petitions that were previously filed at the same High Court challenging his impeachment motion.
However, all the previous ones were dismissed thus paving the way for the tabling of an impeachment motion.
The petition moreover comes ahead of a public participation exercise that is set to officially begin on 4th October.
