Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is suffering from intense chest pains, his lawyer Paul Muite has said.
Muite told the Senate he was, however, not able to talk to the DP in person on the advice of doctors attending to him.
“I would like to inform honourable senators that I was able to contact doctors at Karen Hospital. There is a team of doctors who are looking after the Deputy President. Because of his condition, I was not able to talk to him directly,” Muite said.
“I was however informed by his doctors that he is currently suffering from intense chest pains. I did not want to inquire beyond that.”
Muite made the submissions when proceedings resumed after Speaker Amason Kingi adjourned the afternoon sitting until 5 pm when Gachagua failed to show up.
Gachagua’s impeachment trial took an unexpected turn after he failed to appear during the afternoon session when he was scheduled to take the witness stand.
Minutes after his legal team said they could not trace him, they announced that they had received information that the Deputy President had been taken ill.
