- She said the governor was falsely using her name and politicising accountability to evade appearing before a Senate committee.
- The lawmaker spoke a day after Govenor Guyo skipped a meeting of the Senate County Public Accounts Committee.
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Isiolo Senator Fatuma Dullo has dismissed assertions by Governor Abdi Guyo that she is using the Senate to fight him.
Dullo termed the governor's claims as unfair and an attempt to evade accountability to the people.
"The committee, which I sit in, had given the governor four chances to appear before it. The Friday one was the fifth opportunity, but he still failed to appear. Which politics is that? " Dullo said.
She said the governor was falsely using her name and politicising accountability to evade appearing before a Senate committee.
"The governor is on record saying he's not accountable to anyone, including me and the Senate. He doesn't want to be held accountable. The committee has been very patient with him."
The lawmaker spoke a day after Govenor Guyo skipped a meeting of the Senate County Public Accounts Committee.
The oversight panel chaired by Homa Bay Senator Moses Kajwang had traveled to Isiolo to question the governor over audit queries for 2019-20.
But Guyo, his deputy, the speaker of the assembly where the committee was to sit and all the MCAs were a no show.
Chairman Kajwang to imposed a Sh500, 000 fine on the governor.
Kajwang also asked the Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome to arrest and produce Guyo before the committee at a date and venue to be communicated.
The committee said the failure by both the executive and assembly to show up was a scheme designed to evade accountability.
"Something massive is cooking, maybe massive theft. That is why the governor and assembly are playing hide and seek games," Kajwang said.
If the governor does not show up then the committee will push for dissolution of the county government or stop disbursement of funds .
Governor Guyo defended his failure to appear, claiming that Dullo was using the committee to intimidate and blackmail him.
“I’m ready to be accountable to the great people of Isiolo and the people of Kenya. But I will not appear before a committee that has been weaponised and reduced to a political tool,” he said
But Dullo rubbished the claims, saying that the committee has been patient with the governor to appear before it to shed light on audit queries.
"Which politics is there when public money cannot be accounted for? Which politics is there when a dispensary has stalled?" the senator said.
The committee required the governor to explain 2019-2020 expenditures running into millions of shillings during the tenure of Mohammed Kuti.