Here is what you need to know to get up to speed with today’s happenings.

Gachagua’s case

Impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua will know his fate today, October 30, 2024, when a three-judge bench will rule on whether to set aside orders that stopped Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki from being sworn in as the deputy president.

Judges Eric Ogola, Antony Mrima and Freda Mugambi will rule after both parties submit their cases.

Gachagua, through his lawyers, Senior Counsel Paul Muite and John Khaminwa, urged the bench to extend conservatory orders preventing Kindiki from assuming office as the new DP.

Gachagua wants the court to find that Kenya’s Constitution offers both hope and promise and that the document is supreme.

The lawyers argued that none of the 50 million Kenyans was called to consider the suitability of Kindiki to hold the office of Deputy President.

Gachagua has maintained that he was condemned by the Senate unheard and urged the court to find that Kenya is not a Presidential or Legislative democracy but a constitutional democracy and that the constitution was never followed during his impeachment process.

The Senate, however, urged the court to set aside the conservatory orders and allow the country get a new Deputy President.

Graft cases in court

Several graft cases will be in court today for mention and hearing.

Among the cases set for hearing is the one involving Mary Ngechi Ngethe, a suit for recovery of Ksh13 million being public funds illegally acquired by the defendant from the defunct City Council of Nairobi in the purchase of the land to be used as a cemetery.

The case will be heard at the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court.

Another case set for hearing involves Bob Kephas Otieno and others, a suit for recovery of Ksh12.6 million that was fraudulently paid in the form of salary when she was not an employee of Homa Bay County Assembly.

The 1st defendant authorized the illegal payments which were made to a joint account of the 2nd and 3rd defendants.

Lecturers strike

The University lecturers’ strike will today, Wednesday, October 30, 2024, enter day two.

University lecturers union, University Academic Staff Union (UASU), has called its members back on strike after the government failed to honour the agreement signed to end the previous strike.

UASU on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, launched the strike at Technical University of Kenya (TUK)

The union says the dons’ strike will only end upon lecturers receiving the agreed 7-10% pay rise.

UASU on Monday, October 28, 2024, announced that it would officially begin its strike with effect from midnight.

‘’I want to tell UASU members wherever they are, just work today up to midnight, after which you should down your tools,’’ the UASU Secretary General Constantine Wesonga urged.

‘’If you have given a member 7 per cent it will show, we are not dealing with illiterate people who don’t know how to calculate 7 and 4 per cent so you cannot cheat them. You want UASU officials to be part of that manipulation, that one we will not do,’’ he added.