Meru governor Peter Munya risks arrest for snubbing senate committee summons.
The chairman of the Council of Governors (CoG) has failed to appear before the Anyang Nyong'o-led Senate Public Accounts and Investment Committee committee to answer questions raised by the Auditor General on the management of 2013/14 funds.
Munya is said to have snubbed the meeting and instead sent county officials whom Nyong'o's team sent away terming it a breach of the law.
“The law says that attendance to parliamentary committees takes precedence over any other thing unless Parliament issues permission to do otherwise,” he said.
Nyong'o added that Munya wrote to the committee saying he was chairing a CoG meeting hence could not attend.
“We have made a decision and it will be communicated to the public procedural in the next one day,” he added.
However, another senator who spoke on condition of anonymity said the Senate legal team had been directed to write to the Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet effect the arrest of Munya.
Once Mr Boinnet is served with the letter, Munya's arrest will be effected before he is later presented before the Nyong'o's committee.