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Gachagua impeachment has set us into uncharted legal waters

Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua arrives at the Senate chambers for the second day of hearing of his impeachment on October 17, 2024. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Politics and rationale are truly strange bedfellows. Many months ago, we began noticing and experiencing the political rift between the president and the deputy president widening.

Initially, they both denied it and blamed the usual scapegoat, the media, for seeing too much smoke where there was none. This did not stop the rift however, it continued until the gap between them became a huge valley that neither could jump and crossover to join the other.

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