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Impeachment is political even as courts absorb such matters

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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is facing an impeachment. [File, Standard]

This is impeachment season. Unlike impeachments for governors, the impeachment of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua will be the first targeting the Presidency under the 2010 Constitution.

There are therefore many unknowns not tested, unlike governors' impeachments which have been tested severally, right up to the Supreme Court. By the time Riggy G's process is over, the constitutional provisions having implications on the matter will have been tried and tested to the furthest limits of their elasticity.

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