Nairobi, May 7 -- Petitioners challenging Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment on Thursday accused President William Ruto's administration of orchestrating a calculated political purge through a "captured Parliament".

They told the High Court that constitutional safeguards were deliberately dismantled to remove a "powerful Mt Kenya rival from government" ahead of the 2027 polls, arguing that Mr Gachagua was "a victim of political conspiracy".

Appearing before a three-judge bench of the Constitutional and Human Rights Division, the petitioners argued that the October 2024 impeachment was driven by political fallout within the Kenya Kwanza administration rather than constitutional accountability.

They linked the fallout to the Gen Z anti-gover...