The senate in Kenya has briefly adjourned an impeachment hearing for the deputy president after he was hospitalized over an illness, according to his lawyers.

Kenya's Senate will proceed with impeachment hearings and a vote on whether to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Thursday, the senate speaker said, despite Gachagua's absence from the proceedings after his lawyer said he had fallen ill.

The unprecedented impeachment trial of Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was thrown into disarray on Thursday after his lawyer said he had fallen ill and was in hospital .