{"id":1251,"date":"2024-10-08T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:27:01","slug":"i-will-fight-to-the-end-deputy-president-rigathi-gachagua-pledges-to-contest-his-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/i-will-fight-to-the-end-deputy-president-rigathi-gachagua-pledges-to-contest-his-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Will Fight to the End&#8221;: Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua Pledges to Contest His Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nairobi, Kenya, October 8- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has pledged to resist his impeachment motion, which is set to be debated today at 5 PM. He made this statement in light of ongoing speculation regarding his potential resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I called this press conference, there was a lot of speculation that I want to resign. This is a man elected by 7.2 million Kenyans; how dare you suggest that he could do so without public participation? I have no intention whatsoever to resign from this job, and I will fight to the end,\u201d affirmed Gachagua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed that the impeachment of a Deputy President is a serious matter that cannot be decided swiftly by a small group of Members of Parliament (MPs) and senators. \u201cThe impeachment of a Deputy President is not a trivial matter that can be swiftly decided by a few Members of Parliament (MPs) and senators,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gachagua expressed his commitment to pursuing justice through independent institutions and remains hopeful that his impeachment will be dismissed. \u201cCertain individuals have tried to use my friends to sweet-talk me. My friends, I don\u2019t want to become enemies with you. If you\u2019re given such meaningless messages, please don\u2019t bring them to me,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reiterated his resolve by stating, \u201cI have no intention of resigning\u2014I cannot resign. I have done nothing wrong against the people of Kenya. I have been very loyal to my boss, President Ruto, and I work hard every day. I will not be distracted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Kibwezi West Member of Parliament Mwengi Mutuse filed a motion seeking Gachagua&#8217;s impeachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, Kenya, October 8- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has pledged to resist his impeachment motion, which is set to be debated today at 5 PM. He made this statement in light of ongoing speculation regarding his potential resignation. \u201cWhen I called this press conference, there was a lot of speculation that I want to resign. This is a man elected by 7.2 million Kenyans; how dare you suggest that he could do so without public participation? I have no intention whatsoever to resign from this job, and I will fight to the end,\u201d affirmed Gachagua. He stressed that the impeachment of a Deputy President is a serious matter that cannot be decided swiftly by a small group of Members of Parliament (MPs) and senators. \u201cThe impeachment of a Deputy President is not a trivial matter that can be swiftly decided by a few Members of Parliament (MPs) and senators,\u201d he added. Gachagua expressed his commitment to pursuing justice through independent institutions and remains hopeful that his impeachment will be dismissed. \u201cCertain individuals have tried to use my friends to sweet-talk me. My friends, I don\u2019t want to become enemies with you. If you\u2019re given such meaningless messages, please don\u2019t bring &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}