This archive report was first published on 13 June 2020.
On June 13, 2020, Andrew Ngirici, husband of Kirinyaga Woman Representative Wangui Ngirici, was grilled by police in Mwea East Sub-County for two hours over planned protests in Kirinyaga on June 16, 2020.
The police interrogation came after Ngirici threatened to organize mass demonstrations in Kirinyaga if the decision on the impeachment fate of Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru was left to 11 special committee senators.
According to sources, Mwea East OCPD, John Onditi, called Ngirici on Friday night, June 12, 2020, and directed him to appear before his officers at 9am on Saturday for interrogation.
Ngirici stated that the security team, led by Sub-County Commissioner Fred Ayieko, asked him to rescind the decision to hold the demos on Tuesday.
“I told them I will go ahead to mobilise people to participate in the protests. Picketing is a constitutional right,” Ngirici told K24 Digital outside the deputy county commissioner’s office in Mwea East.
Ngirici further stated that he did not record a statement with the authorities because “no crime has been committed yet”.
“I asked them to arrest me if they felt I have breached any law. They, thereafter, told me to go home,” he said.
On June 12, 2020, Senate Majority Whip Irungu Kang’ata announced that the Senate Business Committee proposed that the Waiguru impeachment matter be heard by an 11-member Senate Committee.
According to Senate Standing Order 175, the impeachment ends at the committee level if it determines that the charges levelled against a sitting governor do not merit.
On June 9, 2020, Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru was impeached for gross misconduct, abuse of office, and violation of the Constitution of Kenya.
