MCA files impeachment notice against governor Badilisha

By Peter Ochieng

A Member of the County Assembly (MCA) in Nyandarua County has filed a notice of an impeachment motion, seeking to remove governor Moses Ndirangu Kiarie alias Badilisha from office.

Samuel Wainaina, the Mirangine Ward MCA in his notice claims that the first term county boss has on numerous occasions acted in full contempt of county laws.

He cites the move by the County boss to deploy the governor’s Service Delivery Unit (GSDU) officers to head the seven revenue stations in the county as contrary to the dictates of law.

"This can only be ill plans to defraud and misappropriate revenues at source and thereby negatively affect service delivery to the public of Nyandarua County," says the MCA.

"The Governor introduced a pyrethrum program in the budget, where seedlings were procured at huge amounts of money, only to end up not growing. The said pyrethrum program was nothing but a scam to syphon public coffers for selfish and personal enrichment by public funds," he adds.

The MCA faulted the governor for allegedly contracting his company to undertake construction works in the county.

"The company did not undertake the works satisfactorily as the county public works did not certify some works for payment for falling short of Kenya building code and standards.”

He has urged his colleagues in the County Assembly to embrace his ouster motion against the governor, referring to him as "a ticking time bomb to the extent that it has the potential to plunge the County into economic turmoil and development backwardness."

If the motion sails through the County Assembly and the Senate, Badilisha will become the second governor to be impeached since the 2022 general elections.

The first one was Meru’s Kawira Mwangaza, but she is still in office courtesy of a court order.

Kericho governor Eric Mutai survived impeachment on the floor of the Senate, after his removal from office by the County Assembly was dismissed on technical grounds.