🚨🟡🔴 Tony D’Amico will be new AS Roma director as agreed weeks ago and will now accelerate on two top priorities.
🇦🇷 New deal for Paulo Dybala.
🇮🇹 New deal for Gianluca Mancini.
BREAKING: Rigathi Gachagua has announced that after this weekend's major rally in Kakamega in support of Cleophas Malala and others,
He will retreat to Wamunyoro for 45 days to hold consultations and negotiations aimed at uniting the opposition behind a single presidential candidate.
According to Gachagua, elders and other leaders have urged him to lead the process. He says he will largely stay away from public events during this period as talks continue.
If this plan succeeds, Kenya could soon see a united opposition candidate. Interestingly, Gachagua has indicated he is open to supporting any opposition leader agreed upon through the negotiations.
As we pointed out last week, losing the impeachment case may have strengthened rather than weakened the opposition by giving it a common rallying point.
Gachagua has insisted that he was the one who made William Ruto President
He went on to say that he will send him home in 2027 by persuading his supporters, including Uhuru Kenyatta, to put their votes in one basket in support of their agreed presidential candidate
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Gachagua statement is on POINT. One, the courts INSULTED his intelligence when they offered him 50 million. Give it to the poor. Two, this man will be on the BALLOT in 2027. Kalonzo and Matiangi MUST climb down. QUESTION: Is Kalonzo SAFE with Ruto or Riggy? Think about it.
The ruling in Hon. Gachagua’s impeachment case makes no sense to me. If the court finds that his constitutional rights were infringed, it cannot, in the same breath, allow the outcome of that flawed process to stand.
Yesterday's High Court judgment on the impeachment of H.E. Rigathi Gachagua raises serious and legitimate questions that our constitutional jurisprudence must grapple with honestly. The three-judge bench found that the Senate violated the former Deputy President's right to a fair hearing under Article 50 of the Constitution specifically by declining to grant an adjournment when he was unable to attend the proceedings. The court acknowledged that violation, issued a declaratory order and awarded Ksh.50 million in constitutional damages. Yet the bench ultimately upheld the impeachment itself. I respect the court and the constitutional role it plays. But I believe this outcome calls for serious reflection on the coherence of our remedial framework.
The tension in the judgment lies in this, if the Senate's refusal to adjourn was a constitutional infirmity serious enough to warrant a finding of violation and a Ksh.50 million award, then the question that naturally follows is whether that infirmity was capable of tainting the entire removal process. The right to a fair hearing is not procedural decoration. It is a substantive constitutional guarantee, particularly in proceedings that result in the removal of a person from high public office. Courts must therefore grapple carefully with what it means to vindicate a right while simultaneously affirming the outcome that flowed from its violation. It is a difficult balance and I appreciate that the bench was navigating complicated constitutional terrain.
It is instructive to recall the reasoning of the Supreme Court in the landmark 2017 presidential election petition delivered by the then Chief Justice David Maraga. The court, in a 4-2 majority, nullified the presidential election not on the basis that the outcome was necessarily wrong but on the basis that the process through which it was arrived at did not conform to the Constitution and the law. The court found that irregularities and illegalities in the transmission of results had compromised the integrity of the election and that the constitutional standard required more than a plausible result, it required a process that was itself constitutionally compliant. That principle that a flawed process cannot produce a constitutionally valid outcome remains a pillar of our public law.
When we place that 2017 reasoning alongside yesterday's judgment, a legitimate concern emerges. Both cases involved constitutional violations in the course of a high-stakes removal or electoral process. In 2017, the violation of constitutional standards was sufficient to nullify the result entirely. Yesterday, a violation of the right to a fair hearing was found, remedied in damages but the result was preserved. These are not necessarily irreconcilable positions, courts do have discretion in fashioning remedies but the distinction must be clearly reasoned and transparently justified because the precedent being set will govern how future impeachments are conducted and how future courts respond to violations within those processes.
My concern is about the precedent this decision may establish. If a constitutional violation during impeachment proceedings can be remedied by damages without disturbing the outcome, future Parliaments and Senates may not feel the full weight of their constitutional obligations when handling removal proceedings. The court itself noted the urgent need for Parliament to enact a dedicated statutory framework under Article 150 governing the removal of a Deputy President which is a legislative gap that should never have existed this long. That recommendation must not be ignored. A constitutional democracy is built on the integrity of its processes not merely its outcomes. We must ensure that the right to a fair hearing in Kenya remains substantive and not merely symbolic.
Rigathi Gachagua thinks he will be the King Maker. Bure kabisa. Central people should listen to President Uhuru Kenyatta. You can follow someone who misled you to elect Ruto.
Caught off guard, but this is what my days really look like. Not perfectly balanced, not neatly divided. Just full. Full of work, responsibility and constant motion between roles, expectations and ambition.
You learn quickly that if you want more out of life, you have to give more of yourself to it.
So you stretch yourself, you sacrifice, you keep going… and hope it all makes sense someday.
Doctors, as we head to the ballot, let us remember the leadership that stood firmly with us when it mattered most. Our SG @Davji and DSG @MiskellahMD have consistently demonstrated courage, commitment, and an unwavering fighting sprit for the welfare of doctors. When interns 🧵