They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. This is the peculiar state a cross-section of MPs is facing as the plot to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua gathers momentum.

While some MPs are determined to send Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua home to safeguard their political career in 2027, others are fearing the consequences.

Some MPs, especially from Gachagua’s Mt Kenya home region, blame him for their deteriorating political fortunes on the ‘ground’ where he has demonized them as sellouts, home guards, betrayers and collaborators, a strategy that makes them very unpopular with the electorate.