The Kenyan Senate voted on Thursday to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in a landmark decision.
The upper house held two days of hearing after which they found Gachagua guilty on five of the 11 charges against him. The Senate only needed to uphold one charge to remove the 59-year-old from office.
This marks the first time a deputy president has been impeached under Kenya's 2010 constitution.
The impeachment motion, which was overwhelmingly passed by the National Assembly last week, listed charges such as corruption, money laundering, insubordination, ethnic divisiveness, bullying public officials, and threatening a judge — all of which Gachagua had denied.
The Senate proceedings were briefly disrupted earlier in the day when Gachagua, suffering from severe chest pains, was hospitalized and unable to testify in his defense.
