Unprecedented Impeachment: Deputy President Gachagua ousted

In an unprecedented move, Kenya’s Senate on Thursday voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, citing corruption and other accusations, only hours after he was hospitalized with chest pain.

While the Senate only had to find him guilty of one charge to remove him from office, five of the eleven impeachment grounds against Gachagua were approved by senators, making him the first deputy president to be ousted through…