Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo now says Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is not remorseful over his utterances which are part of the impeachment charges he is facing.
Speaking during the motion’s debate at the National Assembly on Tuesday, Amollo added that Gachagua is not a man looking to change.
"I am convinced, having listened to DP Gachagua that he is not remorseful, he is not sorry for his utterances, and he is not prepared to change,” he said.
“He must be saved from himself by impeachment.”
Amollo explained that he had chosen to back the ouster bid after listening to “the display of jingoism (extreme patriotism), the self-entitlement for two and half hours”.
“...purpose of his utterances on the idea of government being a company, it was easy for me to make a decision,” he added.
The lawmaker said Gachagua, who addressed the media on Monday, admitted the impeachment charges against him.
“The fact that the DP admits to these processes and does not see anything wrong with it is a serious matter of integrity,” he said.
Amollo also spoke on the charge of ethnical discrimination and inciteful utterances against Kenyans.
He poked holes at DP’s statement on the government being a company, saying the blatant justification of the utterances was worrying.
“The fact that the DP can think that he can justify such utterances and elevate these agreements above the law and the Constitution is the clearest evidence that he must go because he has breached the Constitution,” Amollo said.
On Monday, Gachagua defended himself on the utterances, saying the remarks had been used against him, yet President William Ruto consented to a shareholding pact before his election in 2024.
Gachagua said in the Kenya Kwanza coalition agreement, National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi negotiated their positions in return for 70 per cent votes for Ruto in the Western region.
“I have never talked about sharing resources, I have been talking about power sharing. For people to get what they deserve in sharing power according to this agreement,” Gachagua said.