Nyamira County Assembly Clerk Daniel Orina has been suspended over abuse of office.
Mr Orina was given a three-month compulsory leave to await his appearance before various assembly committees to clear his name.
County Speaker Moffat Teya said Mr Orina was sent home following accusations of financial impropriety.
Mr Orina is accused of failing to remit more than Sh12.5 million as gratuities for former Ward Reps. This follows after regular complaints from the MCAs.The former MCAs have for months been holding regular protests outside the precincts of the assembly.
Mr Orina is also under investigations for the alleged loss of Sh1.4 million deducted in March 2016 as gratuities which authorities say he has not accounted for.
He is also said to have failed to communicate the redeployment of three staff who worked in the office of the former speaker.
The same staff still continued to draw salaries and allowances befitting their former status long after they had been moved.
Mr Teya said the clerk also altered minutes of the county public service board on recruited a staff and pushed them to a higher rank instead of cleaners as was early planned.
The clerk furthers stands accused of granting a ‘topping up’ of car and mortgage loan to the MCAs and former Speaker against the regulations governing the fund.
He also granted himself a Sh2 million as car loan without any policy regulating staff loans, the speaker said.
But in a rejoinder, Mr Orina termed the accusations as a political witch-hunt adding that he acted within the law.