News
Sonko Impeached
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko finally impeached over allegations of gross misconduct and abuse of office with 88 out of 122 MCAs supporting.
The votes surpassed the 42 quorum to pass the motion.
There were only 58 MCAs in the chamber when minority leader Michael Ogada moved the impeachment motion. The speaker Benson Mutura allowed for virtual voting and that’s how the threshold was attained.
57 MCAs allied to Sonko have been holed up in Kwale, they were taken to the coastal town in a bid to block the house from attaining the two thirds of the assembly to impeach.
The motion sailed through even as Justice James Rika recused himself from a case in which lawyers representing the Nairobi County assembly are seeking to have orders staying the proposed impeachment of Nairobi Governor dismissed.
Governor Sonko’s lawyer Harrison Kinyanjui has however questioned Justice Rika’s recusal, vowing to lodge a complaint against the judge at the Judicial Service Commission.
It remains unclear whether the impeachment holds any validity since the assembly convened against the court order staying the impeachment of Sonko which expires on Thursday midnight.
At the same time, MCAs allied to Sonko who had retreated to Kwale with the governor ahead of the vote cried foul that they had been logged into the county assembly voting system without their consent.
Their absence was aimed at derailing the motion to ensure it does not meet the two-thirds majority threshold.
The house has adjourned until February 9, 2021.
Kenya Insights allows guest blogging, if you want to be published on Kenya’s most authoritative and accurate blog, have an expose, news TIPS, story angles, human interest stories, drop us an email on [email protected] or via Telegram
Sugar Empire in the Dock: How Kibos’s Mombasa Refinery Landed 1,481 Phantom Tonnes at the Port — and Why Nine Government Agencies Are Now Watching Its Every Move
G-to-G Deal Fails To Cushion Kenyans As Country Stares At Adulterated Fuel After Hiked Prices
Getting Away With It: How Kenya’s Most Politically Connected Fuel Company Gulf Energy Is Pocketing Billions While Rival Firms Face Public Wrath
The Great Vanishing Act: Odinga Family Moves Be Energy Millions to Secret Tax Haven
Kenyan Motorists Stare At Possible Engine Damage And Heavy Losses As Report Confirms Substandard Fuel In Circulation
Best Betting Sites in Kenya for 2026
How Safaricom Could Sell You Out To KRA
A Case That Refuses To Die: EABL Stake Sale Faces Fresh Challenge After Temporary Reprieve
The Kewota Racket: How Kenya’s Female Teachers Are Being Bled Dry
Raila-Linked Firm Benefited From G-to-G Fuel Import Deal
Forged Legacy: How Kaplan and Stratton’s Peter Gachuhi Is Accused of Faking a Top AG’s Will as State Claims Damning Evidence
THE HANDSHAKE THAT BECAME A NOOSE: How Tuju’s Alleged Intimate Access to EADB’s Yeda Apopo Produced a Sh294 Million Deal With No Written Contract, and Why That Trust Destroyed an Empire
Sold And Abandoned: How Diageo and Asahi Are Locking Kenya’s EABL Minority Shareholders Out Of East Africa’s Biggest Corporate Heist
Poison at the Pump: How Kenya’s Fuel Marking System May Be Exposing Millions to Cancer-Causing Chemicals
How Firm Linked To Mombasa Tycoon Jaffer Was Allowed To Import Fuel At Bloated Price And Set To Make Billions In Profits From Iranian War Crisis In Kenya
THE ZAKHEM-ECOBANK MACHINE: How Kenya’s Courts Were Weaponised to Drain a State Corporation of Over KES 78 Billion
The Teflon Company: How Gulf Energy’s Insiders Built Billions on Kenya’s Fuel, and Walked Away Clean
Inside Details Of Sh78 Billion Fraud in KPC’s Mombasa-Nairobi Line 5 Pipeline Project That Has Continued To Bleed The Country
Men Linked to Akasha Drug Dynasty Charged With Death Threats and Assault at Nairobi Nightclub
The Debt They Would Not Pay: How Standard Group Ducked Sh50 Million In Regulatory Fee For Years, Then Called It A Witch-Hunt
-
Business2 weeks agoPoison at the Pump: How Kenya’s Fuel Marking System May Be Exposing Millions to Cancer-Causing Chemicals
-
Investigations1 week agoTHE ZAKHEM-ECOBANK MACHINE: How Kenya’s Courts Were Weaponised to Drain a State Corporation of Over KES 78 Billion
-
Investigations1 week agoThe Teflon Company: How Gulf Energy’s Insiders Built Billions on Kenya’s Fuel, and Walked Away Clean
-
Investigations1 week agoInside Details Of Sh78 Billion Fraud in KPC’s Mombasa-Nairobi Line 5 Pipeline Project That Has Continued To Bleed The Country
-
News1 week agoMombasa Lawyer Exposed In Sh600 Million Alleged Double-Dealing Diani Property Transaction
-
Business6 days agoWattanga Fired Over Incompetence in Tech, Insiders Say
-
Investigations1 week agoWho Architected the Ksh 4.8 Billion Fuel Scandal? Two CSs Now Caught in the Storm
-
News1 week agoThe Lawyer at the Centre of Kenya’s State Machine: Eric Gumbo, the AG’s Bypassed Office, and the Half-Billion-Shilling Question