- Senator Karungo Thang’wa has alleged that Senate members were bribed to vote in favor of Rigathi Gachagua’s removal from office
- Thang’wa also claimed he was one of the senators offered large sums of money before the voting at the Senate began
- This comes weeks after senators voted overwhelmingly to remove Gachagua from office, making him the first deputy president impeached under the 2010 constitution
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Faith Chandianya, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and Current Affairs in Kenya
Kiambu senator Karungo Thang’wa has shared intriguing details regarding Rigathi Gachagua’s impeachment proceedings in the Senate on Thursday, October 17.
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Was Thang’wa bribed to vote for Gachagua’s ouster?
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He asserted that he learned about it when a colleague called him outside the Senate and offered him a bag of money that would be his if he voted to support Gachagua’s impeachment.
He further stated that the money was so much that he couldn’t believe his eyes as he thought of everything he could do with it.
“They were given money, there was a lot of it. I’ve never seen such much money. Don’t you love money? I was called by a colleague, who later took me outside the Senate and opened a bag full of money. I was told that the money would be mine if I voted in support of impeaching Gachagua,” Thang’wa said
However, he said he turned down the offer because it contradicted his principles and beliefs as a leader of the country.
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“I believe that If you receive money to do injustice, It will come knocking to you. I am okay with the little I have. So I told the person that I will think about it, but never got back to him,” he added.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
