Impeachment process against assembly speaker flops

 The Mountain Journal

The much awaited impeachment motion against Murang’a County Assembly Speaker Johnson Mukuha has failed.

  The motion by Rwathia MCA Kenneth Kamau failed to attain the threshold after the assembly Clerk Kuria Thuita received withdrawal of signatures from the members, on the notice of motion on the removal  of the speaker from the office.

Deputy speaker Moses Gachui in a communication to the assembly said following the withdrawal of signatures the motion does not meet the one third signature requirement  pursuant  to the standing order.

“Subsequently the motion fails to meet the required threshold  for debate in the assembly,” said Gachui also the Kihumbu ini ward.

Kamau implicated the speaker with misappropriation of funds, financial mismanagement, and nepotism among others.

 Other claims against him include micro-managing the county assembly, insubordination among others.

A source divulged that 36 MCAs last week were in support of the impeachment motion before the notice of motion was tabled in the county assembly.

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