Linturi ‘fake’ trial: Kenya is being run Wild West-style
Cabinet Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock Development Mithika Linturi when he appeared before the National Assembly Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock at the Continental House in Nairobi, Kenya on April 8, 2024. PHOTO | NMG
The impeachment trial of Kenya’s Agriculture minister Mithika Linturi by a special parliamentary committee was a charade. Even a child would have known the outcome.
Despite presentation of enough grounds for impeachment, the minister was let off the hook. Impeachment does not require the threshold of a criminal trial. All that is required is to show gross intentional or unintentional neglect of responsibilities.
