{"id":182596,"date":"2024-10-15T22:49:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-court-declines-to-suspend-dp-gachaguas-impeachment-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T20:49:06","slug":"kenya-high-court-declines-to-suspend-dp-gachaguas-impeachment-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-court-declines-to-suspend-dp-gachaguas-impeachment-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: High Court Declines to Suspend DP Gachagua&#8217;s Impeachment Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nairobi \u2014 The High Court has rejected a request by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua for a conservatory order suspending his impeachment trial at the Senate, scheduled for October 16-18, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Gachagua&#8217;s legal team, led by Senior Counsel Paul Muite and lawyer Tom Macharia, argued that the impeachment process was politically motivated.<\/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=\"19\">They sought to halt the Senate proceedings until the legality of the National Assembly&#8217;s impeachment decision was fully&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410150515.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 The High Court has rejected a request by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua for a conservatory order suspending his impeachment trial at the Senate, scheduled for October 16-18, 2024. Gachagua&#8217;s legal team, led by Senior Counsel Paul Muite and lawyer Tom Macharia, argued that the impeachment process was politically motivated. Click here to connect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":182597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660172:901ce67c7f84064f775f589e950872a0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6185,14017,46599,6184,13025,4688,430,257,254,12719,6564],"class_list":["post-182596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-declines","tag-gachaguas","tag-high","tag-impeachment","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspend","tag-trial"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660172:901ce67c7f84064f775f589e950872a0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182596","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=182596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}