Gachagua’s impeachment case to resume after Supreme Court declines his request to halt it
The Supreme Court has delivered the highly anticipated ruling on the impeachment case of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, a decision that could have far reaching political and constitutional implications nearly two years after his removal from office.
Rigathi Gachagua’s dreams of derailing the court process about his impeachment has now been derailed by the Supreme Court which has just ruled that the proceedings about Gachagua’s case at the Court of Appeal will proceed and that the three judges hearing the case will resume and conclude the case.
At the heart of the matter is whether the three-judge High Court bench comprising Justices Eric Ogola, Anthony Mrima and Fred Mugambi was properly empanelled, specifically whether Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu acted within constitutional limits when she constituted the bench in the absence of Chief Justice Martha Koome.
The real nightmare here for Gachagua is that he went to court to throw out the Justices who were appointed to hear his case because he argued that Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu had no authority to appoint the Court of Appeal judges to deal with his case. In reality Gachagua was telling Kenyans that he did not like the three Justices appointed in his case.
Guess what, Mr. Gachagua, now you are going to appear before the very Justices to whom you have shown a lot of disrespect and hostility. We know Justices Eric Ogola, Anthony Mrima and Freda Mugambi will make their ruling based on the law but this whole charade by Gachagua to try to dismiss them was a complete waste of time and useless.
Part of the strategy by Gachagua is to get appeal against impeachment dragged on in court forever. Maybe he hopes that if no ruling is made in his appeal courts and Supreme Court before the elections in 2027, he will be allowed to snick in as an MCA somewhere.
The impeachment of Gachagua stands unless it is overturned by the superior courts and if no ruling has been made by the time of political parties nominating candidates Gachagua is dead in the bushes.
Right now, the so-called United Opposition are desperate to convince Kenyans that they are united and will nominate their presidential candidate six months before election in August 2027 and that means their candidate will come out in February 2027 and that is assuming they will still be operating under one same roof at that time. Good luck with that my friends.
The idea that this mob will wait for a whole year to name the one presidential candidate is fantasy.
As it is now, Kalonzo Musyoka has already launched his manifesto even though we can forgive him for never talking about what plans he had in there because the entire opposition has made it clear to Kenyans that having a plan to develop Kenyans and benefit the citizens should they take over form William Ruto is not part of their agenda.
Their plan is to complain and whine everyday seeking attention and if that is what Kenyans want to achieve in 2027, they have abundant number of heroes and heroines in that opposition group. If Kenyans want anything better than that for their country, they will figure that out themselves.
In the meantime, the opposition is threatening mass action in the streets if the people they want to be arrested are not arrested in the next few days.
Opposition threatens nationwide protests in 2 weeks if Gachagua attackers not arrested.
These are the same opposition leaders who were too chicken to come out in the streets in 2025 when the Gen Z national demonstrations engulfed the whole country and was worst in Nairobi where all those opposition leaders live. None of them could come to those demos and instead were glued on microphones claiming that they were the leaders of the Gen Z movement that was rocking the Ruto government. Everybody knew the opposition were lying about the Gen Z actions and when those young Kenyans had enough of the streets and stopped the demonstrations that was the end of the story.
Kenyans would love to see this noisy opposition leaders actually hold mass demonstrations in the country unless their “mass actions” will be limited to Wamunyoro to eat Gachagua’s goat meat and talk to themselves.
Here is Kalonzo Musyoka’s huge contribution to the Gen Z actions in 2025 when he was too scared to join the rallies while trying so hard to milk any political capital out of the actions of those young Kenyans.
Kalonzo Musyoka was very happy and dedicated to laying flowers and lighting candles for the dead Gen Z demonstrators killed by the Ruto government. He knew that nobody was laying any flowers on his grave following the demos because he was hiding in his house every time Kenyans were on the streets protesting against Ruto’s policies on the economy and how that affected their lives and hopes for their country to be a better place for them to live and prosper.
Now that Kalonzo Musyoka and opposition leaders know that Kenyans are moving towards laying flowers and candles in their political graves after they are crashed in the 2027 General Elections, Kalonzo and his team are ready to ask the Gen Z Kenyans to come back to the streets to fight for the political ambitions of politicians now in the opposition who have been in government for more than forty years, during which time they cannot tell Kenyans anything good they did for them because there is nothing like that for them to talk about.
The Kalonzo Gachagua types are going to learn very quickly that those young Kenyans are not robots to just be switched on by politicians to come to the streets to fight and die for the political ambitions of a few politicians who have never done anything for their country. Gen Z are going to stand back and find how tough these opposition leaders are and see if they can dare mobilize rallies with their families and friends and face the streets of Nairobi and elsewhere.
It could be a complete humiliation for the opposition leaders to find themselves alone in the streets with their own goons and Gachagua can lend them a whole army of goons to mess up the streets and let’s see how that works for them.
If the opposition want to try the mass rallies of the 1990s by FORD which ended Moi dictatorship in the country and forced multiparty in our country let them study what happened then because of these opposition leaders were in government with Moi then killing Kenyans and they have no clue what mass action actually means and how it happens.
Where were these opposition leaders when Mothers of Political Prisoners went to Uhuru Park and stayed there for months fighting for the release of their loved ones detained by the government. Thos mothers were brutalized by the police who beat them viciously and then the mothers got very angry about the violence and attacks on them and were forced to strip naked at Uhuru Park and with the support of Kenyans the police were forced to leave them alone.
On February 28th, 1992, Mothers of Political Prisoners, aged between 60-80 years presented a Petition with a list of 52 political prisoners (among them students, journalists, lawyers, and human rights advocates who had been imprisoned for perceived anti-government statements, ideas, and actions) to then Attorney General, Amos Wako as they proceeded to a now famous corner at the Uhuru Park in Nairobi for an undefined hunger strike. The mothers were supported and led by the late Nobel Laurent, Prof. Wangari Maathai.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the political atmosphere in Kenya was characterized by brutal government repression and terror.
Under the de-facto single-party rule of President Daniel arap Moi, any form of political dissension was swiftly met with government interrogation, detention, and torture, using the justification of the Public Order Act, the Chiefs Authority Act and the Sedition Law
The actions by those mothers and their courage to face so much violence and terrorism from the police is a big part of the reason Kenya achieved multi-party democracy and that is part of why Kenyans take human rights violations very seriously.
Rigathi Gachagua was promoted Moi for killing thousands of civilians and expelling 75, 000 others. Now that is a mission he must be very proud of but are Kenyans proud of him for that mission? He will find that out very soon.
All the opposition leaders scrambling for power to day were working with Moi when he was committing all those crimes on Kenya. In fact, Rigathi Gachagua was a D.O in Molo in 1992 where Moi assigned him the job of killing Kikuyus in Molo because they did not vote for Moi in 1992. Gachagua did that job with excellence killing more than 5,000 kikuyu folks and forcing more than 75,000 to flee from their homes and to seek safety elsewhere.
Rigathi Gachagua today paints himself as the leader and hero of the Kikuyu communities of Kenya, but he conveniently forgets that the only people who killed more Kikuyus than the 5,000 he killed in Molo in 1992 is the British colonial powers (wabeberu) during the colonial rule of our country. How does that add up for Gachagua. He should bring that on to his new opposition mass protests to help make him the real hero in Mt. Kenya.
