MPs Were Bribed to Send ex-Deputy President Gachagua Home; Minority Leader Junet Mohamed Reveals

Members of Parliament were ‘given something’ to impeach former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in October 2024, National Assembly Minority Leader Junet Mohammed has alleged.

Junet alleged that cash was circulating in Parliament at the time of the impeachment.

During a convention by the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), held in Kakamega on Sunday, the Suna East Member of Parliament confessed to bribery in the National Assembly and the Senate, which overwhelmingly voted in support of the impeachment motion.

According to Junet, Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot was the custodian of the money that was dished to Members of Parliament.

“Wakati tulikuwa tunafukuza Gachagua kazi, kuna kitu ilitembea hapo. Huko Bunge. Accounting officer alikuwa Aaron Cheruiyot,” he said.

He claimed that while some lawmakers accepted the alleged payments, they had little to show for it.

"When we were impeaching former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, there was some money that was moving around in Parliament. I will say the truth, there was something moving around," Junet said.

He further claimed that some MPs did not put the money into good use.

"There are some people that received the money but have not constructed their homesteads. Impeachment does not come every day. If you got something from Gachagua's impeachment, please make your homestead well."

Gachagua was removed from office after he was impeached in a historic vote in the country’s Senate on Thursday, October 17th, 2025 night.

Gachagua became the first deputy president in Kenya to be removed from office in this way since impeachment was introduced in Kenya’s 2010 constitution.

The 60-year-old, who was once a close ally of President William Ruto, faced 11 charges including insubordination to the president, inciting ethnic violence, corruption, undermining government and money laundering, among others.

Gachagua rejected the charges against him as being politically motivated.

But the Senate – which only had to find him guilty of one charge to remove him – decided he was guilty of five of the 11 that Gachagua faced.

Thursday’s vote came at the end of a two-day Senate trial hearing, during which the now former deputy president and the National Assembly both argued their cases.

Gachagua, who previously served as a member of parliament, was elected into office to serve alongside President Ruto in August 2022. The two defied the odds to win the election, but their relations sputtered, as Ruto warmed to opposition leader the late Raila Odinga, his main rival in the elections.