This archive report was first published on 10 December 2019.
On December 10, 2019, the High Court in Kisumu made a landmark ruling upholding the impeachment of County Assembly Speaker Onyango Oloo.
The court ordered Oloo to surrender county assets, including cars assigned to him by the County Assembly Service Board, following his impeachment on September 19 in a vote that saw the number of votes exceed the number of lawmakers in the Assembly by nine.
Following Oloo's impeachment, the county assembly elected Elisha Oraro as the Acting Assembly Speaker.
The allegations leveled against Speaker Oloo during the impeachment vote included failing to conduct house proceedings in a free, fair, objective, and impartial manner, failure to allow executive Bills to be debated, and being the subject of an active corruption investigation.
Speaker Oloo is among 27 current and former officials of the Lake Basin Development Authority (LBDA) facing graft-related charges over the irregular procurement in a mall construction project whose cost was allegedly inflated.
According to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Noordin Haji, the former Chairperson of Lake Basin Development Authority received a Sh17 million bribe to allow the inflation of the tender for the construction of the mall from an initial figure of Sh2.5 billion to Sh4.1 billion.
