The decision comes hours after Rigathi Gachagua was impeached from office by the Senate on Thursday night even as he took in ill at a Nairobi hospital.
The president's allies in parliament have accused Gachagua of undermining the government, promoting ethnically divisive politics, having a role in fuelling the deadly protests that rocked the country in June, and of being involved in corruption.
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