Political analyst Fred Ogola has warned some of President William Ruto‘s close friends who boast that the Head of State cannot be impeached.
In July 2023, opposition leader Raila Odinga launched a petition to collect 10 million signatures to remove President William Ruto from power, quoting Article 1, clauses One and Two of the Constitution.
However, s section of legislators allied to Kenya Kwanza dismissed threats to impeach the President terming it an exercise in futility.
The Members of Parliament said that they have the numbers in both houses and on the ballot to shoot down the impeachment against President William Ruto.
However, appearing on KTN News on Friday, January 12, Ogola said that the President is working so hard to have him impeached.
Ogolla asked those supporting President Ruto to be keen stating that they might wake up one day to find that they do not have numbers to stop Ruto’s impeachment.
“Anybody thinking that we cannot gather numbers to impeach President William Ruto … we can lobby and I am sure that we will be having very serious countrywide ways to lobby and to mobilize,
“You can see Linda Jamii is going to launch the #StopRutoCampaign on Monday, next week,” Ogolla said.
According to the 2010 Constitution, a president can only be ousted by way of the Parliament and only two grounds; impeachment and incapacity.
In the case of impeachment, a legislator, supported by at least a third of all MPs, moves a motion for impeachment on three grounds.
They include a gross violation of a provision of the Constitution or any other law, serious reasons for believing that the President has committed a crime under national or international law, or for gross misconduct.
If the motion is supported by at least two-thirds of all the members of the National Assembly, the Speaker will relay the information to his Senate Counterpart within two days.
