MCA vows to push Mutua ouster motion despite quorum snag

By: OLIVE BURROWS 1 min read
The vote was however expected to face a quorum hitch given reports that 31 Members of the County Assembly had gone on a trip to Tanzania/FILE
The vote was however expected to face a quorum hitch given reports that 31 Members of the County Assembly had gone on a trip to Tanzania/FILE

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 23 – The Machakos County Assembly was on Wednesday to debate a motion to impeach Governor Alfred Mutua.

The vote was however expected to face a quorum hitch given reports that 31 Members of the County Assembly had gone on a trip to Tanzania.

There are 59 MCAs in the County Assembly and an impeachment requires 39 members to sail through.

Motion mover Stephen Muthuka was however insistent that the motion will go before the House and said he had three sessions within which to make his case.

“I have seen some of them (MCAs) are back. If they’re so confident in Mutua, then why run away? They should have stayed and countered the motion point by point.”

Muthuka seeks to have Mutua impeached on abuse of office grounds.

OLIVE BURROWS

OLIVE BURROWS

With a decade of storytelling under her belt, Olive Burrows has been with Capital FM for the last four years and perhaps most notably interviewed US President Barack Obama. Committed to asking the hard questions and telling the story in the most engaging way possible, she has also interviewed Melinda Gates, a UK Minister and severally had the opportunity to sit across from President Uhuru Kenyatta and address the pressing issues of the day. Other notables she has had occasion to seek answers from are UN Secretary General António Guterres and John Kerry in his time as US Secretary of State.