11 MPs selected to probe impeachment charges against CS Linturi

Efforts to question Agriculture Cupboard
Secretary Mithika Linturi gained tempo on Thursday after the Nationwide Meeting
shaped a Choose Committee to analyze allegations towards him.

The committee will encompass 11 members
drawn from the Kenya Kwanza alliance, Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition, and
the Jubilee Occasion.

The committee members embrace MPs: Naomi Waqo
(Kenya Kwanza), Robert Mbui (Azimio), Rachael Nyamai (Jubilee), Samuel
Chepkonga (Kenya Kwanza), George Murugara (Kenya Kwanza), T.J Kajwang (Azimio),
and Jane Maina (Kenya Kwanza).

Others embrace; Malulu Injendi (Kenya
Kwanza), Kassim Tandaza (Kenya Kwanza), Catherine Omanyo (Azimio) and Yusuf
Farah (Azimio).

The 11-member committee shall, inside ten
days, report back to the Home whether or not it finds the allegations towards the Cupboard
Secretary to be substantiated.

Bumula MP Jack Wamboka listed three grounds in
the impeachment movement, particularly; gross violation of the Structure or any
different regulation, critical causes to consider the CS has dedicated a criminal offense below
nationwide regulation, in addition to gross misconduct.

MP Wamboka said that there are causes to
consider CS Linturi dedicated a criminal offense below the nationwide regulation involving offences
referring to abuse of workplace and false claims.

Within the paperwork tabled, the legislator adduces
causes to consider Linturi dedicated a criminal offense of forgery, uttering false
paperwork and procuring execution of paperwork by false pretences opposite to
part 353 and 355 of the penal code.

If the Choose Committee studies that it finds
the allegations are unsubstantiated, no additional proceedings shall be taken.

Nevertheless, if the committee finds the
allegations are substantiated, the Nationwide Meeting shall afford the Cupboard
Secretary a possibility to be heard.

If the movement to undertake the report of the
Choose Committee obtains the help of the vast majority of the Home membership,
which is capped at 176 members, then the President could have no selection however to
relieve the CS of his duties.

The committee was shaped after a heated
debate on the ground with a bit of Kenya Kwanza MPs led by Majority Chief
Kimani Ichung’wah placing up a powerful defence for CS Linturi.

“Wamboka has utterly failed to point out us the
nexus between the allegations that he was talking about and the particular person he
seeks to take away from workplace. Certainly, in his personal submission, he has alluded to
points pertaining to procurement and distribution of fertilizer by the NCPB,”
Ichung’wah said.

Ichung’wah expressed fears that the
impeachment movement towards the CS could possibly be a decoy to cover the actual people
culpable within the scandal and an try and impede the continuing investigation by
the Home.

“Wamboka is looking on this Home to make a
political declaration within the impeachment of a CS however will get completely no worth
within the struggle towards corruption. Permit our committee on Agriculture to expedite
its inquiry, discover those that had been culpable to be charged earlier than court docket,” he mentioned.

Nevertheless, Minority Chief Opiyo Wandayi implored
the Home to go the movement and kind the committee to analyze the problems
that had been raised.

“Linturi by now ought to have truly
voluntarily resigned. Failure to take action, the appointing authority who’s the
President of the Republic of Kenya ought to have taken probably the most logical motion
and fired him,” Wandayi said.

He urged lawmakers to uphold their mandate by
supporting the movement saying CS Linturi’s impeachment is the final resort for
Kenyans because the President Ruto administration has declined to sack him.

“And since each Linturi and the President
have didn’t do what the Structure requires them to do, this Home has obtained
an obligation to take this CS house,” remarked Wandayi.

The Home handed the movement, with 149 members
supporting the movement, 36 opposing it and three others abstaining.