Anne Waiguru Kamotho impeachment aborted by the Senate survives county assembly AXE

Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru at the Senate. FILE

Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru survives the county assembly axe at the Senate. The Senate helped Mrs Anne Waiguru Kamotho after they failed to hit the last nail.

Kiranyaga Governor Anne Waiguru to remain in office after Senate committee investigating her impeachment motion acquits her of charges against her.



" As I was presiding over the proposed impeachment of Governor Anne Waiguru, some funny people were hiding in some cocoon planning to remove me as Senator for Kakamega. I want to remind the people that I am the Kakamega Senator and will stay to be so, " says Cleophas Malala.


Mrs Waiguru in her defence presented three witnesses who gave an account of the happenings in the county that brought about her impeachment.

“The Committee having investigated the matter in accordance with its mandate under section 33(4) of the County Governments Act and standing order 75(2) of the Senate Standing Orders reports to the Senate that it finds that the two Charges against the Governor have not been substantiated,” read the report by the committee.


On the first charge of Gross violation of the Constitution and any other law, the Committee, therefore, found that the allegation was not proved and was therefore not substantiated.


Under the first charge, the allegations were (i) Failure to deliver the annual state of the county address for the Financial year 2018/2019 to the County Assembly, (ii) Undermining the authority of the County Assembly and (iii) Violation of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act,2015 and the Public Finance Management Act, 2012.


Under the second charge of Abuse of Office and Gross Misconduct, the committee also found that this allegation was not proved and was therefore not substantiated.


The allegations under the second charge were (i) Violation of section 46 of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015, (ii) Conferring a benefit to a public officer.

(iii) Disregard of the recommendation of the County Public Service Board regarding the remuneration of members of the Board of Kirinyaga Investment Development Authority (KIDA), payment of KIDA Board members outside the IFMIS and CountyGovernment Payroll, and payment of imprest amounting to more than Sh14 million paid to Mr Francis Muriithi Kariuki.

(iv) Violation of the Right to Health of the people of Kirinyaga county.