Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza sheds tears as MP Mpuru Aburi's remarks played in impeachment case hearing

Embattled Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza on Wednesday afternoon shed tears during the hearing of her impeachment case before the Senate.

The Governor put up an emotional and teary demeanor while being cross-examined by her Advocate Elias Mutuma on some of the utterances previously made against her by leaders accused of being behind the bid to remove her from office.

To ostensibly illustrate that the impeachment is a political witch-hunt, the governor's advocate brought out several video clips before the Senate plenary.

In one of the clips that left the Governor teary, Tigania East MP Mpuru Aburi is captured verbally attacking her for not having children with her current husband.

The MP is captured making a charged address while rubbing a stick between his palms as he continues to speak in Meru vernacular language.

Asked by her advocate to tell the Senate, what the MP was saying, Governor Kawira says:

"He is saying he has given me 9 months to be pregnant and if that is not done. He will do it via what he is holding," Kawira says before shedding tears.

The Advocate goes ahead to play another clip where the Meru County Deputy Governor Isaac Mutuma is captured trashing the Governor’s controversial outreach program dubbed Okolea where she has been donating cows and mattresses to residents.

In the clip, the deputy governor, at a public event, describes the Okolea program as a poverty program calling on the locals of Igembe South where he hails from to reject the initiative.

“Honorable Speaker for the last 12 years, I have been doing Okolea and this gave me favour before God. And my deputy who was just a prison askari... God gave us favour because of this program. And out of this program that raised him from an askari to deputy DG of Meru is the same person is seen on video demeaning the same program that God used to give us favour before Men and Women," submitted an emotional Governor Kawira.

Asked to describe the MP's remarks, she says: "He is saying the father of Kawira Mwangaza is called Njuguna and the mother Mugure and they don't want to be ruled by a Kikuyu in Meru and that is why they want to change to Peter Munya the first Governor."

Mwangaza will know her fate today (Wednesday) following her impeachment hearing in the Senate that began on Tuesday, November 7.

The senators will either vote to uphold her impeachment as per the Meru County Assembly motion or dismiss the charges levelled against her by the Members of County Assembly (MCAs)

However, the governor will have two hours to plead her case before the senate plenary before the vote on her case.