{"id":182531,"date":"2024-10-14T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T20:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mutai-survives-senate-impeachment-trial-thanks-to-unmet-threshold\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T20:46:20","slug":"kenya-mutai-survives-senate-impeachment-trial-thanks-to-unmet-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mutai-survives-senate-impeachment-trial-thanks-to-unmet-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Mutai Survives Senate Impeachment Trial Thanks to Unmet Threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Beleaguared Kericho Governor Eric Mutai has survived an impeachment motion due procedural technicalities linked to an unmet threshold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Senators threw out the impeachment motion citing that Kericho Members of County Assembly&#8217;s failure to meet the two-thirds threshold to remove him from office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaWmSKbFsn0gEDGcPy0x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaker Amason Kingi ordered a vote on the matter after he declined to make a ruling citing the implications a decision on the matter would have on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410140588.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Beleaguared Kericho Governor Eric Mutai has survived an impeachment motion due procedural technicalities linked to an unmet threshold. Senators threw out the impeachment motion citing that Kericho Members of County Assembly&#8217;s failure to meet the two-thirds threshold to remove him from office. Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp Speaker Amason Kingi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":182532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00400303:ad7591bf55a020ec134ddda5c942d72c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,13025,4688,430,49745,257,8115,254,7764,14449,6564,44406],"class_list":["post-182531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-impeachment","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mutai","tag-news","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survives","tag-threshold","tag-trial","tag-unmet"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00400303:ad7591bf55a020ec134ddda5c942d72c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}