EIn today’s court news, a city lawyer has filed a case in court seeking to stop the withdrawal of petitions challenging the removal of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office.
In the case, Kelly Maleya says all the petitions whether filed before or after the impeachment challenge the legality of the impeachment process and were filed in the public interest so they should not be withdrawn.
Maleya states that he intends to take over the said petitions and prosecute them to their conclusion himself.
“The petitions raise issues of public interest, particularly concerning the impeachment process of a deputy president and in this case, the impeachment of Rigathi Gachagua,” the court documents read.
Gachagua withdrew two petitions he filed last year to challenge his impeachment by parliament, saying they had been overtaken by events.
Gachagua’s legal team on Thursday last week applied to the High Court, seeking to withdraw the pre-impeachment petitions that the new Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) leader filed in October last year.
He had filed the cases seeking to stop the National Assembly and the Senate from impeaching him following a special impeachment motion that sought Gachagua’s dismissal on 11 grounds.
