Meru Governor Kawira Mwangza will know her fate on Friday when the eleven-member committee of the Senate that was investigating allegations leveled against her by the Meru County Assembly will table its report.
Speaker Amason Kingi has already convened the special sitting scheduled to consider the report, which will be tabled by the committee chairman Senator Boni Khalwale of Kakamega.
'The sitting shall be held in the Senate Chamber, Main Parliament Buildings, Ground Floor, Nairobi, commencing at 2.30 p.m. The business to be transacted at the sitting shall be the -- (a) swearing-in of David Wakoli Wafula, the Senator-elect for Bungoma County; and (b) consideration of the Report of the Special Committee on the Proposed Removal from Office, by impeachment, of the Governor of Meru County," Kingi said in a special Gazette Notice issued Wednesday.
The report from the committee will either uphold the allegations and the verdict by MCAs to send her home or reverse it.
If Senator Khalwale and the team reports that the allegations have not been substantiated, no further action will be taken against her, but if the report substantiates the allegations, the Senate shall vote on the charges.
The committee which concluded its sittings at 2 am Wednesday night retreated on Thursday to draft its report which will be tabled on the floor of the House as the 10-day window to determine Mwangaza’s fate lapses.
Mwangaza was impeached on December 14, 2022 after 68 MCAs voted in favour of a motion sponsored by Abogeta MCA Denis Kiogora.
She is accused of nepotism, illegal appointments, unlawful dismissal of the constitution and statutory functions of county organs. She denies all the allegations.
She is also accused of appointing her husband Murega Baicu as the Hustlers Ambassador and Youth Patron alongside other roadside appointments of county workers.
The MCAs also accused the Governor of directing Meru Teaching and Referral Hospital to spend all revenue at source, directing county officers to participate in advancing the interest of Baite TV, a private media station, and misconduct relating to the nominating of County Executive Committee Members.
