Members of County Assembly allied to ODM were kept in darkness until the last minute as their colleague crafted impeachment motion against Deputy Speaker Duke Omoti, it has now emerged.
On Wednesday, a motion filed by nominated ODM MCA Abel Mose garnered momentum and eventually sailed through as Raila Odinga's last-minute efforts to save the deputy speaker fell to deaf ears.
Nominated MCA Caroline Mogere admitted that the 10 ODM lawmakers in Nyamira County only learnt about the motion after collection of signatures thus making it difficult for them to counter it.
"It is difficult to save him because even some of us just learnt about the plot few hours before it was tabled. Everything happened so quickly that we had no time to intervene," she admitted.
And this precipitated Majority Leader Duke Masira, who was conspicuously unaware, to make distress calls to Orange House for Raila to intervene by making a formal call to the mover.
Party lawyer Tony Moturi, who widely consulted Mr. Odinga, immediately wrote to Mr. Mose after calling him to make the party's position clear in the last efforts to save the Kiabonyoru MCA who was accused of misuse of power among other misconducts.
"The party leader instructed Oduor Ongwen through me to write to the MCA and ask him to drop the motion. Our members were kept in darkness and since he proceeded with his plot, we shall now evoke disciplinary actions against him," he told the reporter.
The impeachment could come to haunt Nyamira Governor John Nyagarama, whom pundits believe is the target by the MCAs over unpaid salaries and gross incompetence.
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