Migori Members of County Assembly were attacked by civilians on Wednesday over Sh12 Million inappropriately spent by the County Legislature.
The rowdy youth who were allegedly hired by the House Speaker, Gordon Ogola, beat up and ripped the shirts of three members of the Public Investments and Accounts Committee, who were supposedly plotting to implicate him over the missing money.
The committee members who included Jared Osawa, Jack Gucha, Joshua Ongoma and four others found out that Sh900,000 had been irregularly spent on paying an advocate of the assembly's former majority leader Johnson Owiro, and another Sh900,000 was used to pay a contractor while Sh30,000 was paid for a single meal of a senior officer.
Upon concluding the investigations, the committee recommended that all the officials mentioned to step aide for further directions from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), for failure to justify the spending.
The MCAs found “unclean” included Speaker Gordon Ogola, Clerk Patrick Wakine, Majority leader Richard Solo and Minority leader Charles Nyangi.
Mr Ogola however stood firm to deny the claims stating that the three members of the committee wanted him impeached for no reason.
“The effort to send me packing is politically motivated and it is only a plan to hinder me from stopping funds misuse. I will not step aside unless the public calls for me to,” Mr Ogola told a goup of Migori youth.
Mr Osawa who was one of the attack victims, claimed that the Speaker withdrew Sh1.5 Million from the bank to hire the youth instead of simply facing the law and stepping aside if he was innocent.
“Nobody wanted to impeach the Speaker. He should step aside, if he is clean then let him clear his name first," said another victim, Mr Gucha.
The assaulted MCAs were instructed by area police boss David Kirui to record statements for further investigations to be conducted on the matter.
