Kenya’s Deputy President (DP) Rigathi Gachagua was swiftly removed from office in the first hour of daylight- working day Friday after he was impeached in a midnight vote in the Senate on Thursday.
In a sign that Kenya President William Ruto had well rehearsed the ouster of his deputy, with whom he had fallen out, he immediately forwarded the name of Interior Cabinet Secretary of Kithure Kindiki to succeed him. By the end of lunchtime, Parliament had voted by a big margin to appoint him.
