A section of Kisumu County Assembly members have asked Speaker Anne Adul to step aside after her name appeared in the confidential Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) report.
The report was handed to President Uhuru Kenyatta last week by EACC and it has stirred a hornets’ nest as many of those implicated at the county level adamantly refuse to step aside.
Speaking to the press at the assembly premises, Kondele MCA Gabriel Ochieng’, who is currently acting as the speaker, said that the appearance of Adul’s name on the list of corrupt officers drawn by EACC was a confirmation of allegations levelled against her by Kisumu MCAs.
“The members of the public should know that our fight to impeach the speaker was not out of witch-hunt but it is true that her dealings were questionable as EACC’s investigations have shown,” he said.
East Kano/ Wawidhi Ward representative, Moses Ochele reiterated that the inclusion of Adul’s name in the “list of shame” had vindicated the MCA’s who had been pushing for her removal.
“EACC is an independent body and has come up with unbiased findings, a clear show that public outcry from within and outside the assembly was genuine,” he said.
Ochele asked Adul to step aside or resign and the Assembly Service Board to give her a send- off package.
Nyalenda ‘A’ Ward representative Jackton Onunga echoed the same sentiments, adding that the anti- graft agency should investigate other people involved in corruption.
Onunga appealed to Assembly leaders to behave in accordance to chapter six of the constitution.
Nominated MCA Salome Lung’afa also said that the former speaker should step aside because the anti- graft agency has done its part.
However, the suspended speaker said her accusers were playing dirty politics that were demeaning and claimed that they were doing it at the behest of the executive.