RULE BY NUMBERS NOT BY LAW! PLAYED WELL DURING GACHAGUAs IMPEACHMENT

Added: 2026-04-28

[00:00:00]There are no clarity in terms of timelines, fairness, or impartiality.

[00:00:06]This creates a dangerous precedent where decisions depend on political discretion, not law.

[00:00:16]The process becomes rule by numbers, not rule of law.

[00:00:22]And in constitutional theory, absence of procedure means absence of legality. May I repeat that?

[00:00:31]Absence of procedure means absence of legality.

[00:00:36]Number three, impeachment is a quasi-judicial process, not a political vote.

[00:00:45]That term quasi-judicial has been used a lot here.

[00:00:49]But what is exactly meant by quasi-judicial?

[00:00:52]In my other life, I'm a member of the academy, and I see two two senior members of the academy here. They can confirm that. And may God bless them in advance.

[00:01:02]Professor Gender, Professor Gitobu Imanyara, senior members of the academy.

[00:01:06]Quasi-judicial power means this, that this is the power to determine disputes or making findings affecting the rights of individuals similar to the way courts operate.

[00:01:21]What was at stake during the impeachment?

[00:01:24]A validly elected president of the deputy president of the republic was going to be impeached.

[00:01:33]His rights personally and the rights of his many supporters, those who voted for him as part of a ticket, were going to be affected.

[00:01:44]The consequences are there in terms of the quasi-judicial power.

[00:01:51]The removal of a deputy president, being a very serious constitutional action, it has come