Kenya’s president has nominated the country’s interior minister as his new deputy. The nomination came hours after Rigathi Gachagua was overwhelmingly voted out as deputy president in an impeachment motion tabled in parliament over allegations of corruption and ethnic division.

The man who was the face of the Kenyan government in the aftermath of the police’s deadly crackdown on recent anti-tax protests is set to become the country’s next deputy president.

After the ousting of Kenyan Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, President William Ruto has nominated Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki as his new deputy