Nairobi, May 15 -- A series of events emanating from legal loopholes and deliberate omissions by the majority side derailed the impeachment of Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi in the National Assembly.

The Nation has pieced together the events from when the motion received the support of 149 MPs to the composition of the select committee and the goings on during the two-day hearing that let Mr Linturi off the hook.

A constitutional requirement that impeachment motions targeting Cabinet secretaries be determined by a select committee of the National Assembly handed Mr Linturi a lifeline.

Article 152 (9) requires that once a motion on the impeachment of a CS is sent to the select committee and it finds the allegations unsubs...