Trade Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has come to governor Kawira Mwangaza’s defense following plans to impeach her.
On a post on his X (formerly Twitter) account, he urged the Meru Members of County Assembly to shelve the impeachment ambitions.
“In the last tern, Kiambu County from Mt Kenya region made history by becoming the first county to successfully impeach a Governor,” he wrote.
“In this term Meru County In Mt Kenya region is determined to become the first County to successfully impeach the Governor.”
“Unless impeachment has something to do with the soils, altitude or climatic conditions, it is necessary for Mt Kenya region to give other regions an opportunity to impeach their Governors in the spirit of inclusivity, diversity and national cohesion. My two Cents.”
Impeachment motion to be tabled next week
A section of Meru Members of County Assembly (MCAs) are set to table governor Kawira Mwangaza’s impeachment motion next week.
This will be Kawira Mwangaza second impeachment process. She was acquitted by the impeachment committee in the first instance.
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Led by Majority Leader Evans Mawira, the UDA Party MCAs say they are in a process of drafting and tabling a fresh motion to impeach the governor.
The caucus insist they intend to bring on board other Meru MCAs from other political parties to support them in passing the impeachment motion.
According to them, they have given Governor Kawira enough time to address issues plaguing Meru County but things have not changed.
We will impeach Governor Kawira Mwangaza
“It is not our agenda to see chaos, to see drama or shenanigans in the county so we have decided to withdraw the support within and outside the assembly that we had given the governor,” Mawira says.
Mawira adds: “We have already appended our signatures from the 27 of us who form or comprise the Kenya Kwanza caucus in the county assembly in preparation for a fresh impeachment motion after the one that we had last year was thwarted in the senate.”
The MCAs say even after trying as much as possible to assist the governor by advising her, their advises have been landing on deaf ears.
