KAWIRA MWANGAZA IMPEACHED AGAIN BY MERU MCAs

Meru Governor, Kawira Mwangaza, was impeached for the second time in ten months. This was after all 59 members of the County Assembly pre...

Meru Governor, Kawira Mwangaza, was impeached for the second time in ten months. This was after all 59 members of the County Assembly present supported a motion moved by Majority Leader Evans Mawira.

However, 10 MCAs who opposed the impeachment were absent from the assembly.

Speaker Ayub Bundi allowed debate on the motion to proceed after confirming that 64 out of 69 MCAs had appended their signatures, thus meeting the threshold required to initiate such proceedings.

An attempt by the Governor’s lawyers to stop the debate on various technicalities was ignored by the Speaker, who maintained that the debate should proceed.

Governor Mwangaza was first impeached by the County Assembly in December last year, barely three months into office, but the resolution was overturned by the Senate on December 30.

The Senate may choose to form a special committee of 11 Senators to probe the matter or consider the impeachment motion as a House.