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Senate clerk rejects Wajir governor summoned for questioning
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Supporters entertain WAjir governor at Buna in Wajir North. {Courtesy}
NAIROBI—Wajir governor has denied claims doing round on social media that he was summoned by the Senate finance committee.
Through his press office, Ahmed Abduallhi said the claim was false and misleading.
“Governor Ahmed Abdullahi is in Nairobi to follow up on the Wajir sewage and sanitation project which is at its final stage.
“The Senate is as well in due adjournment and has not, in any way whatsoever, invited nor summoned Wajir leadership,” the statement said in part.
“I was out of the country for a long time. I don’t think he (Ahmed Abdullahi) was summoned and if it did, I would have been notified,” Billow Kerrow, the Mandera senator and the chairman of the senate Finance Committee replied when Kulan Post reached him for comment.
The claim was similarly rubbished by the Senior Deputy Clerk of the senate, Consolata Waithera Munga, who replied in an email that: “We do not have the record of his summon in our files and the committee has not notified us of such.”
The governor was reacting to a post that appeared on wajironline.com which claimed that the governor was summoned by the senate to respond to financial queries.
“I want to make it categorically clear that the County leadership has not been summoned by any committee, whether parliamentary or senatorial, and our people should treat the propaganda with the contempt it deserves,” the statement noted.
