Embattled Governor Mwangaza pleads with Ruto after MCAs initiate a second impeachment motion
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Meru Governor Mwangaza pleads with President Ruto after MCAs initiate a second impeachment motion
Meru Governor Mwangaza pleads with President Ruto after MCAs initiate a second impeachment motion.
Embattled Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza now wants President William Ruto to rein in Members of County Assembly (MCAs) hell-bent on hounding her out of office.
This is after the MCAs on Tuesday initiated a second impeachment motion against the county boss, a week after a similar motion was blocked by the High Court.
Meru County Assembly Minority whip Dennis Kiogora has filed a fresh notice of motion for the impeachment of Governor Kawira Mwangaza.
Kiogora will now prosecute the motion within the next seven days’ after MCAs voted to alter the Assembly’s Calender by moving the adjournment date by two weeks.
Speaking during an interdenominational prayer meeting at Embu University over the weekend, the governor called on the President to intervene as the stalemate between the Executive and the Assembly threatens to paralyze services in the county.
“The Bible says that blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called children of God…I pray that the President is inspired by God to broker peace in Meru County,” Mwangaza said.
The MCAs accuse the governor of appointing her husband to a county office and ‘wrongly dismissing county officers’.
The MCAs claim that the appointment of Murega Baichu as the patron of the Meru Youth Service lacked transparency.
The ward reps also accuse the county chief of mobilizing an unlawful riot of assembly members.
On November 30, Justice Thripsisa Cherere issued conservatory orders barring MCAs from tabling, debating, and considering or acting upon an impeachment motion dated November 21, pending the hearing and determination of the case filed by Mwangaza.
The first motion was filed by Abogeta MCA Dennis Kiogora who accused the governor of nepotism and illegal appointments.
MCAs insist that the High Court did not have jurisdiction at this stage to stop the assembly from proceeding with the motion.
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