Impeachment in the Kenyan Legal Context

Abstract

The laws on impeachment in Kenya appear only to be on paper but not in practice. The people and institutions mandated to implement the process have constantly failed to follow the laws and the legal procedures that govern it. More often than not, the process has been politicized hence clouding the objectivity of the actors in the process. This has led to impeachment as a tool being abused and/or misused. The existing laws are insufficient to address these challenges. There is thus an urgent need to amend them or enact more laws to address these issues. Similarly, new policies need to be put in place to deal adequately with the process. The researcher has employed mixed methods approaches, which included case study methodology, comparative research methodology and qualitative methodology to identify, analyze and explain different applications of the laws on impeachment in Kenya and other countries and doctrinal research methodology whose relevance was to help the researcher to look at the law as well as reports to examine how the country has performed so far.