Senator says motion to impeach President Kenyatta on track
Nyamira Senator and 2017 presidential aspirant Kennedy Mong’are on Sunday began making plans for his impeachment motion against President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Mr Mongare said that his motion to impeach President Kenyatta has been triggered by the President’s failure to competently handle the ongoing doctors’ strike and rampant corruption in his administration.
Mr Mong’are has said that he has 10 MPs in the National Assembly supporting the tabling of the motion. He has to get two-thirds majority support in both Houses.
Mr Mong’are cited 16 constitutional provisions that he argued that the Head of State had contravened, which include deploying police when Parliament had its special sittings, whose only treatment, he said, was for President Kenyatta to be sent home.
KILLED PEOPLE
A barely known senator who has broken ranks with his Ford Kenya Party by announcing his bid for the presidency, Mr Mong’are vowed to oust President Kenyatta whom he accuses of “gross and grave violation of the Constitution.”
“President Kenyatta has killed people. By failing to talk to doctors who are on strike, as well as failure to provide emergency care as provided for in the Constitution,” he said.
“He has led to the death of Kenyans on the roads as well as mothers at homes due to birth-related challenges. He must go home.”
Such a motion must originate in the National Assembly, and with two-thirds of the support proceed to the Senate which will have the final say.
