{"id":16525,"date":"2024-10-03T11:28:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T11:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=16525"},"modified":"2024-10-03T11:28:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T11:28:51","slug":"deputy-president-gachagua-files-petition-to-block-impeachment-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=16525","title":{"rendered":"Deputy President Gachagua Files Petition to Block Impeachment Motion."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1710168440_65_Rigathi-Gachagua-1024x536-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1710168440_65_Rigathi-Gachagua-1024x536-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1710168440_65_Rigathi-Gachagua-1024x536-1-980x513.png 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1710168440_65_Rigathi-Gachagua-1024x536-1-480x251.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br>Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has filed a petition at the High Court in an attempt to stop an impeachment motion lodged against him in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the petition, Gachagua, through his legal team, argues that the impeachment motion is based on deceit and misrepresentation of material facts. He further contends that the motion is unconstitutional and lacks merit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Deputy President&#8217;s legal counsel maintains that the charges against him are not only unfounded but also violate constitutional principles, asserting that the move to impeach him is politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case now awaits court proceedings as the legal battle over the Deputy President\u2019s fate unfolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has filed a petition at the High Court in an attempt to stop an impeachment motion lodged against him in the National Assembly. In the petition, Gachagua, through his legal team, argues that the impeachment motion is based on deceit and misrepresentation of material facts. He further contends that the motion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1710168440_65_Rigathi-Gachagua-1024x536-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16527,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525\/revisions\/16527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}