The Association of Public Sector General Suppliers on Monday announced plans to submit a proposal seeking to amend the law to impeach Governors and other county officials who fail to clear pending bills owed to suppliers.
In a statement, the association said the proposal will seek the removal of Governors, County Executive Committee (CEC) and Chief Officers (COs) with pending bills pegged at 20% beyond their budgets.
"The association will be looking to put in our input as to having any Governor, CO and CEC having a pending bill beyond 20% of their budgets being impeached for economic sabotage," the suppliers hinted.
Its proposal was aligned with a bill tabled by Kiambu Senator Karungo Thang'wa seeking to modify the procedure for removing a governor, his or her deputy and other county officials from office.
The Impeachment Bill, forwarded for publication, is set to be subject to public participation before it can advance to the next appropriate stages.
"This bill seeks to provide for the procedure of the removal from the office of a County Governor, Deputy, CEC, County secretary, and Speaker of the County Assembly. Just to make the process cleaner and fair," the Senator said in a statement.
Senator Thang'wa, through the proposed legislation, is seeking to address what he describes as the lack of a comprehensive framework for the removal of the four categories of county state officers.
This comes even at a time when suppliers have been increasingly complaining about unpaid pending bills.
According to a Cabinet dispatch dated June 27, county governments had accumulated a whooping Ksh 159.9 billion worth of pending bills.
Due to this niggling problem, the Cabinet resolved to establish a special committee tasked with auditing liabilities in relation to pending bills.
''The Committee will consist of the Attorney General, the State Department of Roads, the State Department of Public Works, the State Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority,'' the cabinet statement stated.
According to the Controller of Budget, Dr. Margaret Nyakang'o, Nairobi County had accumulated the largest amount of pending bills at Ksh100.36 billion.
