The National Assembly has gazetted Kithure Kindiki as deputy president after his nomination received support from 236 MPs, with no legislator opposing or abstaining.
In the gazette notice, Speaker Moses Wetangula noted that the House, at its sitting held on October 18, 2024, in the National Assembly at the main Parliament Building, “voted in favour of the nomination of Kithure Kindiki to fill the vacancy in the Office of the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya.”
Before his nomination, the deputy president-elect served as Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration.
This came after Senate Speaker Amason Kingi gazetted Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment, formally removing the country's second in command from office.
The Gazette Notice, dated October 17, 2024, was released Thursday night immediately after the Senate approved the impeachment motion against Gachagua.
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In the notice, the Senate Speaker listed the five grounds on which the Senate voted to send Gachagua home.
The five grounds for Gachagua's impeachment upheld by the Senate include Gross violation of Articles 10 (2) (a), (b) and (c); 27 (4), 73 (1) (a) and (2) (b); 75 (1) (c), and 129 (2) of the Constitution and Article 147 (1), as read together with Article 131 (2) (c) and (d) of the Constitution.
Other grounds are gross violation of Article 160 (1) of the Constitution on the Institutional and Decisional Independence of Judges, gross violation of Articles 3 (1) and 148 (5) (a) of the Constitution on the fidelity to the Oath of Office and Allegiance and serious reasons to believe that H.E., the Deputy President, has committed crimes under sections 13 (1) (a) and 62 of the National Cohesion and Integration Act.
As well as gross misconduct incompatible with the high calling and dignified status of the Office of the Deputy President.
