Kenya’s Senate has voted to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office in an impeachment trial on corruption and other allegations, hours after the deputy president was taken to the hospital

A lawyer representing Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in his impeachment hearing told the Senate on Thursday that the politician was "very sick" and in hospital, after he failed to attend proceedings.

Kenyan senators voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, upholding the National Assembly’s decision to oust him after he was accused of pilfering public funds and making inflammatory statements to stir ethnic hatred.