Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru faces a new headache, a day after the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC) detectives raided her house and offices over alleged involvement in graft.
On Friday, August 21, 25 Kirinyaga MCAs vowed to cripple her administration and offered the governer a 7-day ultimatum to pay struggling county workers.
The MCAs promised to table another impeachment motion if Waiguru failed to honour their call.
County Assembly Chief Whip Pius Njogu stated that the workers have reportedly not received their salaries for over two months.
Baragwi MCA David Mathenge added that the assembly had already passed Khs 1.5 billion funds dedicated towards workers' salaries.
”We are ready to impeach her again because we have the numbers,” Mutithi ward MCA Peter Njomo added.
In her response to the EACC raid, Waiguru lamented that she was a target of politically instigated wars, with her detractors out to shape 2022 succession politics in the Mount Kenya region.
The governor lamented that several scandals have bypassed the watchful eyes of the detectives, yet they were so focused on pinning her down over doctored allegations.
"The plot failed then and it will fail now. Wild allegations are thrown around only to come empty of even the basic proof. This is a decoy.
"It is intended to distract people who have recently been asking legitimate questions about how massive public monies have been spent," she lamented.
Waiguru survived an impeachment motion in June 2020, with the Senate directing EACC and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to grill the governor over graft accusations.
