The National Assembly has written to the Senate to notify it of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s impeachment.
In a letter seen by The Star, Clerk of the National Assembly Samuel Njoroge notified his counterpart at the Senate Jeremiah Nyegenye of the decision by MPs on Tuesday night.
"Please find a message in respect to the Resolution of the National Assembly on its approval of a Special Motion on the Removal from Office, by Impeachment, of H.E. Rigathi Gachagua, EGH, Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya," the letter reads.
Following the notification, Speaker Amason Kingi is expected to notify Senators of the charges, and thereafter they can decide which way to probe the motion.
They can either decide to form an 11-member committee or the plenary (Committee of the whole house) to probe and vote on the impeachment. This comes hours after the embattled DP was impeached by the National Assembly.
At least 281 MPs voted in favour of the ouster motion against 44 who voted to save his political career.
One MP abstained from voting.
He becomes the first deputy president to be impeached in Kenya's history.
Kibwezi West MP Mwengi Mutuse preferred 11 charges upon which MPs voted to send President William Ruto’s principal assistant packing.
The accusations include gross violation of the constitution, undermining the President, undermining devolution, irregular acquisition of wealth, publicly attacking a judge, intimidating acting Kemsa CEO, promoting ethnicity and insubordination to the President among other charges.
Only 233 MPs were needed to support the motion for Gachagua to stand impeached.