It was shameful for Mombasa MCAs to fight in the chamber, Governor
Hassan Joho has said.
Joho on Saturday
said that while he was
away in Turkey for the Strong Cities Network Summit, he was astonished to see on
news the MCAs physically fighting inside the assembly.
He said he will convene
a meeting in his office and the two factions that were fighting will talk
and come up with an amicable solution.
“As your governor, I do
not want to see this happen again,” Joho told the MCAs during the County
Premier League Awards ceremony outside the county assembly buildings.
“It is shameful to see MCAs, who should be
supporting devolution, fight inside the assembly instead of coming up with
development agenda.”
Joho said he is, however, happy
that the assembly leadership has publicly apologised for what happened two weeks ago.
He said after meeting the two factions, he will officially open the assembly.
Two
warring camps emerged; one supporting speaker Thaddeus Rajwayi and the
other backing nominated MCA Mohamed Hatimy.
Hatimy’s
camp wanted to impeach Rajwayi over his "style of leadership".
On the other hand, the MCAs supporting the speaker hatched a plan to remove Hatimy
and his allies from the leadership of assembly committees.
According to insiders,
this was an aim to punish the "errant" MCAs who wanted to impeach Rajwayi.
This
led to two-day chaos and fist fight among the MCAs, as each camp wanted to take
over the control of the assembly.
