Meru MCAs to table fresh impeachment motion against Governor Mwangaza

Meru County MCAs are set to table a notice of motion of impeachment against their governor, Kawira Mwangaza next week. The first step in the embattled governor’s second impeachment process.

Led by the Assembly Deputy Speaker Mwenda Ali and the Minority Leader, the MCAs said this time they have enough reasons to unseat Mwangaza.

The governor survived the first impeachment in December 2022 after the 11-member Senate Special Committee appointed to probe the grounds for her impeachment said none of the charges levelled against her by the Meru MCAs was proven.

“As things are, members are convinced that we have grounds enough for the impeachment motion and in a few weeks, you will see us doing what we are supposed to be doing,” one of the MCAs said on Monday.

The MCAs accuse the county boss of using her gender to manipulate her public image and create a perception the MCAs are being biased. 

They are citing a recent meeting with President William Ruto where the governor allegedly gathered around 4,000 women and gave them green wrappers to cheer her.

According to the MCAs, Mwangaza also gathered 500 women and dressed them in green headscarves to cheer her on during a recent launch of a market in Meru where Trade Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria was in attendance.

“We are not fighting her because she is a woman,” one of the female MCAs said, “but hers is the case of a governor who has failed at her job. She won the seat as a woman anyway, so this is a leadership issue.”

They term this as efforts to distract Kenyans from the issues Meru is facing.