This archive report was first published on 23 June 2020.
June 23, 2020 - Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has told the Senate that her impeachment by County Assembly members is baseless and driven by malice.
Waiguru made the statement to an 11-member Senate team led by Cleophas Malala of Kakamega, which is investigating the veracity of the allegations raised by the MCAs in their impeachment motion.
“Unfortunately what is before you is in every respect false, unfounded and salacious allegations, which have no place in an impeachment motion,” Waiguru said.
She claimed that the issues relied on by the Senators are administrative issues which could have been solved at the county level.
Waiguru is accused of abuse of office and conferring a benefit of Sh10.6 million to herself, when she paid travel allowance on a foreign trip the MCAs said she did not make.
However, Waiguru said she was surprised by the charge because she even has pictures with some of the MCAs when they were in the US.
Lawyer Ndegwa Njiru, for the County Assembly, pleaded with the Committee to deliver justice to the people of Kirinyaga.
“The question of corruption and mismanagement of the public resources is a complex one. We shall be calling witnesses to show and demonstrate to this country who are the owners of the monies that the county assembly is arising to defend and that governor Waiguru’s hands were in the cookie jar,” Njiru said.
