Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has insisted that he remains the deputy president of Kenya despited the nomination of CS Kithure Kindiki after his impeachment.

Kenya’s Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has been removed from office after he was impeached in a historic vote in the country’s Senate on Thursday night. Gachagua becomes the first deputy president to be removed from office in this way since impeachment was introduced in Kenya’s 2010 constitution.

Kenyan senators voted to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office, despite his absence from his impeachment trial due to hospitalisation, according to his lawyer. Gachagua was expected