Kiambu County Assembly Speaker Stephen Ndicho is truly a man with nine lives.
Ndicho is reported to have survived an impeachment motion for the third time.
This comes after Governor Ferdinand Waititu’s timely intervention, on Tuesday, saw him host some ward reps who were baying for the Speaker’s blood.
Approximately 70 MCAs had signed the petition for his impeachment motion.
Waititu hosted 30 of them for lunch at the county headquarters where the media was kept at bay.
Witeithie MCA, Macharia Taki, told the media they had met to deliberate on in-house matters and they had unanimously agreed to shelve the impeachment motion for the sake of development.
Two past attempts to impeach him mid 2018 and early 2019, saw 60 out of 92 MCAs sign the petition against him.
Ndichu was accused of fraud and abuse of office.
He was also accused of undermining the authority of the county service board and conflict of interest, for hiring his daughter in the assembly.
The MCAs stated that the speaker was unfit to hold office and thus wanted him replaced as soon as possible.
The speaker, however, denied claims of abuse of office. He insisted that the move of the MCAs amounts to political witch-hunt.
Reports by People Daily revealed that the county government is set to sponsor all the 92 MCAs for a weekend “bonding” coastal tour starting Friday, July 25.
