• A fight broke out on Tuesday after Bunyala Central MCA Benson Wanjofu who was the sponsor of the impeachment motion withdrew the motion.
• Minority leader David Ndakwa said trouble begun when the ODM MCAs led by Ongoro and Rockie Omwendo proposed reconciliation instead of tabling the motion.
Kakamega MCAs exchanged blows for the second day on Wednesday after their efforts to impeach speaker Morris Buluma failed.
A fight broke out on Tuesday after Bunyala Central MCA Benson Wanjofu, who was the sponsor of the impeachment motion, withdrew the motion.
The matter was announced by acting speaker Charles Odanga.
It was at this stage that hell broke loose and the fight started, lasting over an hour, as they sought to grab the mace from the sergeant-at-arms.
It took police intervention to quell the trouble.
On Wednesday, when the MCAs arrived at the assembly, Wanjofu said he was ready to table the motion.
However, while the chairman of the ad hoc committee Faustine Werimo said he was ready to table the report on the alleged financial improprieties by the speaker, the mace went missing and the assembly could not sit.
The camp opposed to the speaker searched the precincts of the assembly for the mace and after failing to find it, they went into a consultative meeting.
A scuffle ensued again among the MCAs as they accused each other of having been bribed.
Earlier in the day Shinoyi-Shikomari-Esumeyia MCA Boniface Akosi who was leading the anti-speaker troops together with majority leader Joel Ongoro had withdrawn from the push.
They claimed some colleagues were profiteering from the initiative to remove the speaker.
Akosi and Ongoro could not be reached for comment as they neither answered calls nor replied to text messages.
Minority leader David Ndakwa said trouble begun when the ODM MCAs led by Ongoro and Rockie Omwendo proposed reconciliation instead of tabling the motion.
“Members were infuriated because the reconciliation proposal was a ploy to ensure that the motion lapses without being tabled. This is very bad not only inside the assembly but even out here,” he said.
A motion of impeachment lasts for ten days from the day it is served.
Buluma said reconciliation was critical to ensure unity in the assembly.
(Edited by Bilha Makokha)