Kenya’s Senate began debating the impeachment of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Wednesday after he lost another court bid to halt the proceedings. The country’s Lower House of parliament had last week voted decisively to impeach Gachagua on 11 charges,

Kenya’s deputy president, who faces impeachment, pleaded not guilty in a senate hearing Wednesday to all allegations including corruption, inciting ethnic divisions and support for anti-government protests that saw demonstrators storm the country's parliament.

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s impeachment motion kicks off at the Senate on Wednesday morning following a series of activities that had threatened the process. Gachagua man on the cross, and the day of reckoning awaits him at the Senate on Wednesday.