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Dramatic end to ouster process as Gachagua, his lawyers stay away

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's legal team led by lawyer Paul Muite (centre) walks out of Senate chamber on October 17, 2024. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The sight of their client on the political guillotine too hard to bear, lawyers of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua retreated from a Senate chamber that had essentially sent the DP to the political afterlife.

Their absence would grant a methodical prosecution a free pass to heap all ills on an equally absent Gachagua, who was taken ill early yesterday afternoon.

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