A section of members of the Kisii County Assembly Tuesday called for government's intervention claiming Governor Simba Arati's life is in danger.
Led by Bomorenda MCA John Ombati, the ward reps claimed that there was a plot by some agents to harm the Kisii county boss.
Their remarks follow the emergence of an audio clip doing rounds on social media allegedly purporting a plan to have Arati arrested.
Ombati said they are mulling calling a countywide mass demonstration to protest against the government.
"We want to know what is this that they want from him," he said in the assembly.
Governor Arati has since recorded a statement with the Directorate Criminal Intelligence in Nairobi in relation to the alleged arrest threats linked to a Kisii-based officer.
While speaking in the assembly on Tuesday, the Ward Reps accused "cartels" of sponsoring the governor's harrasssment for purposes of "derailing him from undertaking development for his people."
They tabled a motion Tuesday evening through Majority Leader Henry Moracha to censure an officer they claimed is heard on the audio recording issueing the arrest threats.
"As the assembly, we are waiting to hear from her or someone from the national government to explain about the unfortunate utterances as made in the audio clip.
"If we shall not receive any satisfactory response, we shall call our people to mass action on the streets in the coming weeks," Moracha said.
He told the House that Arati was currently discharging his responsibilities under difficult circumstances.
"He has been for a while now been operating under difficult environment full of harrasssment,"he said.
All manner of threats to the governor, Moracha said, should be handled expeditiously as it is a matter of life and death.
Bogeka MCA Richmond Manani said the officer who is alleged to be speaking in the audio clip should stay away from politics.
"Otherwise, we want her moved," Manani said during a press conference outside the Kisii Assembly.
"The governor is already working and everything is going on well, they should stop fighting the governor through the back door," Manani said.
