The impeachment of Nyamira governor Amos Nyaribo has taken a new twist after it emerged that individuals in his office could be behind the process.
County Assembly Chief Whip Nyambega Gisesa this evening asked Deputy Governor James Gesami to publicly state his stand in the process.
This is after a section of MCA’s claimed that Gesami courtesy of his position will be the biggest beneficiary should Nyaribo be impeached.
According to them, Gesami is probably behind the impeachment is order to propel himself to be governor if Nyaribo is sent home.
Nyaribo and Gesami won last year’s elections on a UPA ticket with 82,040 votes.
“Gesami will be the biggest beneficiary of this impeachment. He should publicly declare his stand in the process before the assembly votes,”said Gisesa who is also the Rigoma Ward MCA and chair UPA.
MCA supporting the impeachment on Tuesday claimed that they have a solid case against the governor as they tabled their notice of motion.
“We have laid our evidence, we have witnesses, who will help us build a case, we are not doing this because of personal reasons with the governor, it is out of our conscience as leaders,” Nyamira county Assembly minority leader Minda Riech said.
The motion will be debated formally next week in accordance with the law governing the impeachment of governors.
The motion was tabled by Esise ward representative Josiah Mang’era in a session attended by 23 MCAs out of a total of 34.
The MCAs have accused the governor of gross violation of the Constitution through several omissions and commissions including illegal recruitment of staff.
The MCAs claim that the governor oversaw the appointment of a director of human resource management and a human resource officer.
They argued that the vetting process did not comply with legal requirements.
On ignoring court orders, the MCAs claim that Governor Nyaribo disobeyed court orders nullifying the appointment of the two officers aforementioned.
They further allege that he also defied court orders by appointing a County Executive Committee Member for Environment, Water and Natural Resources.
