{"id":51738,"date":"2024-10-23T17:07:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/messy-divorce-ruto-and-gachagua-lock-horns-over-impeachment-video\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:40:11","slug":"messy-divorce-ruto-and-gachagua-lock-horns-over-impeachment-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/messy-divorce-ruto-and-gachagua-lock-horns-over-impeachment-video\/","title":{"rendered":"United no more: Ruto and Gachagua lock horns over impeachment (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another political divorce in Kenya, Gachagua has gone bare-knuckles on his boss, President William Ruto, accusing him of orchestrating his impeachment. Gachagua has also claimed that the impeachment motion against him was a culmination of persistent persecution and two failed assassination attempts.<\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s edition of Perspective, we explore the factors fueling the seemingly irreparably broken relationship between Ruto and Gachagua, and examine the potential options available to Gachagua moving forward.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FpVIL6RWNhg\" title=\"Inside Kenyan political divorce: Gachagua and Ruto lock horns over impeachment\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of intense debate in Kenya, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was finally impeached on Thursday, October 17, 2024. However, the impeachment seems to have opened a can of worms rather than silencing Gachagua, who has now moved to court to challenge the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000076236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000076236,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fmcsfbdpyx8hfwfaal2tko5v0ccv4lqpc5jxuydr.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fmcsfbdpyx8hfwfaal2tko5v0ccv4lqpc5jxuydr.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fmcsfbdpyx8hfwfaal2tko5v0ccv4lqpc5jxuydr.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fmcsfbdpyx8hfwfaal2tko5v0ccv4lqpc5jxuydr.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fmcsfbdpyx8hfwfaal2tko5v0ccv4lqpc5jxuydr.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fmcsfbdpyx8hfwfaal2tko5v0ccv4lqpc5jxuydr.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000076236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51738"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51738"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}