{"id":1697,"date":"2020-01-31T15:20:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:20:27","slug":"inside-dirty-tricks-to-swing-senate-vote-in-waititu-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/photo\/inside-dirty-tricks-to-swing-senate-vote-in-waititu-ouster","title":{"rendered":"Inside dirty tricks to swing Senate vote in Waititu ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mystery of four senators who were present during the debate but vanished at the time of the vote exposed the underhand dealings that characterised Ferdinand Waititu\u2019s impeachment by the Senate.<\/p>\n

By walking out, the plan was to create a situation that would help former governor Waititu\u2019s cause by denying the House 24 votes minimum required to uphold his impeachment by the Kiambu County Assembly,\u00a0The Standard<\/em>\u00a0has established.<\/p>\n

The fight to save Mr Waititu was hatched on the first day of the impeachment proceedings when Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen moved a procedural Motion to have an 11-member select committee investigate the charges against the former county boss.<\/p>\n

But some senators demanded that the trial be done before the whole House, alleging that the committee\u2019s composition had a majority of legislators from the ruling party who were sympathetic to Waititu.<\/p>\n

Accusing finger<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, six of those proposed to sit in the select committee voted against the Motion to impeach him.Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja cited this development as vindicating their position that the committee was intended to block Waititu\u2019s ouster, which would have required the House to raise 24 votes to overturn the recommendation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll it would have taken would have been for the six of them to kill the impeachment in the committee. What a coincidence,\u201d said Mr Sakaja.There were also allegations that hefty bribes heavily influenced the vote, with both sides pointing an accusing finger at the other.<\/p>\n

The former governor\u2019s camp is further said to have unsuccessfully tried to win over at least 10 senators from the minority side.Sources said those for the impeachment had to work overdrive to flip four senators, whom they suspected had been earmarked to scuttle the Motion.<\/p>\n

One of the senators openly opposed the governor\u2019s impeachment during the debate, but he later voted to send Waititu home. The senator had been proposed to sit in the committee that was quashed.<\/p>\n

A vote on the first charge was carried 27 to 12, with sources saying had the four senators not played ball, the first charge would have been lost as they would have failed to muster the necessary minimum of 24 votes.This, they feared, would have given the pro-Waititu wing the impetus to collapse the remaining two charges.<\/p>\n

The second and third charges were each upheld by a 28 to 11 vote, suggesting one senator switched camps conveniently when the futility of their mission dawned on them.\u00a0\u201cThere was massive lobbying and calling of everybody to deny the 24 votes to uphold the impeachment,\u201d one senator told The Standard.\u00a0A source added that the former governor made frantic calls to all party leaders, seeking their intervention to save his job.<\/p>\n

A senior government official reportedly held a meeting with some Kiambu MCAs and Central region leaders to plot the governors\u2019 final fall.Mr Murkomen\u2019s demand that the Senate be audited because of its members\u2019 conduct during the impeachment proceedings was interpreted as alluding to vote-buying.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it is a duck. The Senate is left for auditing,\u201d Murkomen said moments before the vote.\u201cI can see; I am not blind,\u201d he added.Speaker Ken Lusaka, however, warned him against imputing improper motives on his colleagues.<\/p>\n

But the accusation that the governor dispossessed a widow of land in Thika, which he is alleged to have allocated to his other wife, as well as the charges that he influenced tenders for his wife and daughters, and his denouncing of his family, reportedly lost Waititu the support of even the senators who had initially been sympathetic.\u201cYou took the land of a widow, which the Commission for Administrative Justice (CAJ) ordered you to return. If that is not an abuse of office, then I don\u2019t know what it is.<\/p>\n

Somebody disowning his family despite the MCA who attended the wedding producing pictures? This is crazy and he should not be in the office,\u201d said Senator Abdullahi Ali (Wajir).He was referring to Ndenderu Ward MCA Solomon Kinuthia who sponsored the\u00a0motion to impeach Waititu at the county assembly and was the star witness in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Laikipia Senator John Kinyua, who voted against the motion, defended his decision to oppose the impeachment.\u201cMy reasons had nothing to do with the allegations brought against the governor. They could be true, but it has everything to do with the law,\u201d said Mr Kinyua.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two-thirds quorum was not raised in the assembly as affirmed during the cross-examination of the key witness and mover of the Motion.\u201dBungoma Senator and Ford Kenya party leader Moses Wetang\u2019ula, who also voted against the impeachment, poked holes in the process, which he termed illegitimate.<\/p>\n

He took issue with the correspondence from County Assembly Speaker Stephen Ndicho to Mr Lusaka outside the stipulated three days.\u201cSection 33 of the County Government Act provides that the county assembly speaker shall within three days communicate to the Senate speaker, who upon receipt shall gazette a special sitting with seven days,\u201d said Mr Wetang\u2019ula.<\/p>\n

Political persecution<\/strong><\/p>\n

He added that the evidence presented would not be enough even for a tribunal as it was hearsay.\u201cPolitics was at play, not law. Senators were carried by emotions. The courts will upset the Senate decision. I didn\u2019t talk to any senator, but the trial was grossly flawed and there was no fair justice to the governor,\u201d Wetang\u2019ula said.<\/p>\n

Senators Murkomen, Aaron Cheruiyot (Kericho), Susan Kihika (Nakuru) and Samson Cherargei (Nandi) were among those who opposed the impeachment, claiming it was an act of political persecution.\u00a0\u201cThere was prejudice on the part of the governor.<\/p>\n

A miscarriage of justice has happened, but at the end of the day, we have courts as a buffer to rely on,\u201d said Ms Kihika.Mr Cherargei claimed that the legislators\u2019 actions were informed by their factions in Tangatanga and Kieleweke.\u201cLet\u2019s not gloss over issues. We should be guided by logic and law. We can be in a political contest today, tomorrow you don\u2019t know where you will be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mystery of four senators who were present during the debate but vanished at the time of the vote exposed the underhand dealings that characterised Ferdinand Waititu\u2019s impeachment by the Senate. 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