Embattled Nakuru Governor Told To Resign Or Face Impeachment
Nakuru Senator Tabitha Karanja has given Governor Susan Kihika an ultimatum to resign following peculiar events in the county that culminated in her conviction and six-month prison sentence on Tuesday, February 18.
Addressing a briefing on Tuesday, the Senator urged Governor Kihika to resign immediately or face impeachment proceedings.
Karanja stated that if the Governor ignored the resignation calls, members of the Nakuru County Assembly (MCAs) should impeach her.
If this does not succeed, Karanja has announced that she will propose a vote of no confidence in the Senate and that senators have agreed to support her bid.
“Where are our MCAs? You are supposed to impeach Her Excellency Susan Kihika, our Governor. If you fail to do so, I will table a vote of no confidence but I am begging her to honourably resign,” Karanja stated.
" Nakuru Women are giving birth on the road while the governor has gone to give birth in USA"- Tabitha Karanja lectures Susan Kihika! pic.twitter.com/U6T9HPHrOf
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“She has failed in her leadership of Nakuru County. That one I can tell her for free. There is no way we can keep having people living with disabilities protesting because their children’s bodies are missing from morgues. We have a young man who was taken by KWS at Lake Nakuru and is still missing.”
Aside from the two sad occurrences, Karanja underlined the significance of Kihika’s conviction for dumping rubbish into Lake Nakuru.
Her main issue with the offense was its impact not only on the citizens of Nakuru County, who rely on the lake for a variety of activities but also on the county’s tourism industry, to which the lake makes significant contributions.
“Our Governor has been sentenced to six months in jail or a fine of Ksh2 billion. What is important is what she was convicted for,” Karanja lamented.
“The Court said that the Governor had been issued a court order stopping her from dumping sewage in Lake Nakuru but she defied it. This is a very huge offence that no other City in the world has experienced.”
The Senator continued: “It’s like the Governor wanted to kill us all. People fish in that lake, people swim in it and our animals that attract tourism in this county also drink water from the same lake.
“Our flamingoes, which are the branding of our county’s logo, have started migrating from Nakuru.”
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Karanja further criticized the Governor’s overreliance on the County Secretary to carry out her mission, as she had flown to Texas, America, leaving the county population to fend for themselves.
Despite getting the second-highest county financial allocation, she noted that the county’s healthcare services were among the worst in the country.
“We receive the second highest equitable share as a country after Nairobi. We receive Ksh15 billion in addition to our own source revenue, which is estimated at Ksh10.9 billion,” she stated.
“Yet reports say we only collect Ksh2 billion. Where is the rest? There is a lot of corruption and theft in our county and we will not allow it. Enough is enough.”
Embattled Nakuru Governor Told To Resign Or Face Impeachment
