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Committee or plenary? Senate to decide fate of Wajir Governor on Thursday

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NAIROBI—The Senate will on Thursday decide whether to form an 11-member committee to probe the allegations against the governor of Wajir or hear the case in the plenary when the House resumes.

Some 37 out of 47 Wajir MCAs last week on Tuesday voted to remove Wajir Governor Mohamed Abdi from office on allegations of abuse of office, gross misconduct and gross violation of the Constitution.

Two days later, Speaker of the Senate, Kenneth Lusaka received the impeachment articles from section of Wajir County assembly led by the speaker.

Lusaka gazetted Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as the days for the special sittings where senators are also set to deliberate and vote on the Building Bridges Initiative Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020.

A Gazette Notice publish on Friday, also listed business to be transacted include the consideration of impeachment charges against Wajir Governor Mohammed Abdi among business to be transacted.

The motion of impeachment was last month introduced by the Elnur/Tula Tula MCA Abdullahi Issack Mohamed. He charged governor Mohamed Abdi of failing to account for the money allocated to the county through provision of quarterly expenditure reports to the assembly as required by the Public Finance Management Act.

“The Governor similarly rejected move to remit over Sh70 million meant for operations of the county assembly,” Abdullahi said in the petition.

Governor Mohamed Abdi was also accused of failing to submit to the county assembly an annual report on the implementation status of county policies and plans.

“The governor has also failed to draft the Medium Term Strategy for the Financial Year 2020/2021,” the motion said in part.

The County administration, the impeachment motion says, exceeded the “expenditure limit of 35 per cent of county government’s total revenue against the law as well as violating the Public Finance Management Act 2015 by operating 19 bank accounts in local commercial banks and not at Central Bank of Kenya.

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