Ousted Kisumu County Assembly Speaker Onyango Oloo now says that he is being targeted, hence his prosecution and impeachment within a span of one week.
Oloo, a former Kisumu Central parliamentary hopeful, was last week thrown out of office by majority members of the county assembly opposed to his rule.
Weighing in on the same on Tuesday, he claimed that his ouster has more to do with his stand against corruption, arguing that he is being fought by corrupt county officials.
He said that his woes began when he sought the help of experts to oversight county activities, which seems to have irked county officials who are now hitting back.
"Corruption fights back and fights hard. I think I was impeached because I sought experts to oversight county activities," he said on Citizen TV's Daybreak show on Tuesday morning.
Oloo added that the same persons are behind his arrest and prosecution over claims of involvement in the Sh4.1 billion scandal at the Lake Basin Development Authority (LBDA).
This was after he was accused of allowing the contractor to balloon the construction cost of the LBDA mall in Kisumu city during his tenure as the chair of the authority.
He questioned the hurry in which the steps were being taken, suspecting that it was a deliberate plan to victimise him and have him out of office.
"Why all of a sudden was there a hurry to charge me with corruption cases which have been investigated for five years? The very day I'm arraigned in court there is an election of an acting speaker. Things are done in a hurry; a notice is given today, you are impeached tomorrow, you are blocked from office, go to court," he said.
Forces led by Majority Leader Kenneth Onyango have also sacked some of Oloo's allies from county assembly committee slots.