Drama as Nyandarua County Assembly speaker is impeached again – KBC

Drama continued at the Nyandarua County Assembly on Saturday after Members of the County Assembly voted to impeach their Speaker, Ndegwa Wahome, for the third time in less than six months.

This was after 31 MCAs supported the motion while six of them opposed,with one abstention.

The MCAs accuse the speaker of abuse of office, militarizing the assembly, disregard to the law, victimizing assembly members and staff, impunity, corruption, poor leadership, nepotism and unlawful recruitment of staff.

The impeachment motion was moved by Leader of Majority, Edinald King’ori, and seconded by Wanjohi ward Rep, Isaac Kung’u. King’ori also accused Wahome of undermining the leadership of Governor Francis Kimemia.

On April 29, this year a High Court sitting in Nakuru reinstated Wahome who had been impeached early January this year, as the County Assembly Speaker.

High Court Judge, Hillary Chemitei, reinstated him as the speaker until a case he had filed against his removal was heard and determined.

The court ruled that the sitting of the assembly that impeached him did not observe the two-thirds rule when voting for his removal.

Mr King’ori who also accused Wahome of favouritism in assembly functions, outside the county and undermining the leadership of Governor Francis Kimemia.

He said that Wahome had out rightly shown that he was unable to hold office.

The leader of the Majority noted that the speaker had failed to explain how over Sh 500 million meant for the construction of county assembly offices had been spent and yet it was not complete.

Wahome, who has maintained that he was still the Speaker, has blamed Governor Kimemia for being behind the bid by MCAs to remove him from office.

He claimed his woes are linked to his stand on corruption and criticism of Governor Kimemia’s style of leadership.

The speaker who is also the County Assemblies Forum (CAF) Chair He pointed out that the MCAs who now want to impeach him are those who are allied to the Governor and are unhappy with his stand.

Nevertheless, MCAs allied to the Speaker have vowed to start a push to remove Governor Kimemia from office.

The MCAs led by Gatimu ward MCA Kieru Wambui alleged that the governor has a hidden hand in the MCAs allied to him so that he can forestall his pending impeachment.