The National Assembly of Kenya approves the dismissal of the vice president, which must be ratified by the Senate

MADRID 9 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The National Assembly of Kenya approved this Tuesday by a large majority and after a heated debate the dismissal of the country’s vice president, Rigathi Gachagua, which will now go to a vote in the Senate, after the deputy Mewngi Mutuse accused him of eleven counts of money laundering. of money and to use his current position to issue government licenses to his companies.

A total of 282 deputies have voted in favor of the motion – of the 233 necessary, equivalent to two thirds – compared to the 44 who have been against, all in a chamber where the government party, the Kenya Kwanza Alliance (Kenya First), has an absolute majority, as reported by the Kenyan newspaper ‘The Nation’.

Gachagua, in office since 2022, has defended his innocence before the assembly members and will now depend on the senators in what is the first motion of censure carried out in the country under the 2010 Constitution.