Inside dirty tricks to swing Senate vote in Waititu ouster

Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka (right) consults with his clerk Jeremiah Nyegenye during the Senate plenary special sitting that impeached Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu at the Senate on Wednesday. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The mystery of four senators who were present during the debate but vanished at the time of the vote exposed the underhand dealings that characterised Ferdinand Waititu’s impeachment by the Senate.