Wamuchomba: I was suspended from Parliament for asking questions

Githunguri Member of Parliament Gathoni Wamuchomba has claimed she was suspended from Parliament for asking important questions.

On  August 13, 2025,  Wamuchomba was handed a 20-day suspension by Speaker Moses Wetang'ula.

Wamuchomba protested the move, saying she can no longer access Parliament premises and her office.

According to her, the suspension is due to the concerns she raised about the disappearance of young people during protests.

“They suspended me from Parliament for 20 days, I don’t have a salary, I can’t access Parliament or my office for 20 days because of asking questions that Kenyans need answers to,” she said on Sunday during a Church Service.

“When I go back to Parliament, I will ask those hard questions. I will ask how many of our children were lost during the protests. About 67 children were taken last year and this year, and we have not been told where they are.”

Wamuchomba said that she will continue to speak for the people who elected her to present their issues.

She, however, said that she did not seek legal recourse because 20 days is a short time and the case will not conclude within the given time.

Wamuchomba affirmed that she will not be intimidated or gagged from asking the right questions for accountability.

She was suspended for staging a protest in Parliament and confronted Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen over what she termed a lack of progress in the investigation into the Kware gruesome Dumpsite murders in Nairobi.

The case, earlier in July 2024, involved the discovery of the bodies of women at the Kware dumpsite in Embakasi.

The legislator alleged that 13 months later, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) had only managed to positively identify a few victims.

“This punitive action is viewed as an attempt to silence both Wamuchomba and the broader anti-femicide movement, which continues to demand accountability from security agencies,” she claimed.

She further said the prime suspect, Collin Jumiasi, escaped from police custody on August 20, 2024, and remains at large, with no significant updates from the police.

In her statement, the legislator further faulted CS Murkomen’s dismissal of the BBC Africa Eye documentary Madams: Exposing Kenya’s Child Sex Trade, arguing it was downplaying systemic threats facing women.

“Speaker Wetangula’s decision to act against her rather than holding Murkomen accountable for failing to fulfil his constitutional duty to safeguard internal security further perpetuates this pattern of contempt,” she further claimed.

The MP argued that her suspension is part of a broader effort to suppress debate on femicide in Parliament.