MIRIAM NNOLI 
In a surprising turn, the Kenyan Senate on Thursday voted to dismissed the Deputy President, Rigathi Gachagua.
The Upper House voted to impeach the 59-year-old on five charges out of a total of 11 against him, after two days of hearings.
The Senate only had to find him guilty of one charge to remove him from office.
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The Senate session had plunged into disarray earlier Thursday after Gachagua was admitted to hospital with severe chest pains and failed to testify in his defense.
New Telegraph reports that Gachagua is the first Deputy President to be unseated in this manner.
Since impeachment was introduced in Kenya’s revised 2010 constitution.
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