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MPs blast ‘meddling’ Judiciary

This is in response to the Council of Governors’ claim that the Senate should have summoned the County Executive Committee officers to explain the irregularities highlighted in the Auditor General’s and the Controller of Budget Report reports for the first quarter.

Homabay MP Peter Kaluma and Ochieng pointed to the Constitution which states that Parliament exercises sovereign power delegated from the people of Kenya.

They defended the Senate, saying it was only doing its job in summoning nine Governors, after the Auditor General and the Controller of Budget raised queries about the expenditure of public funds by their counties.

Unaware the High Court in Kerugoya had overturned the impeachment of the Embu Governor, Thika Town MP Alice Nganga cautioned the Judiciary against issuing an order that will negate the impeachment passed by the Senate last Friday.

“If they (judges) put the Governor Wambora back in office, he better go and sit with them, because the County Assembly of the Embu had spoken and the Senate spoke the other day, that is what we will go with,” said the Thika Town MP.

Other MPs who spoke accused some of the newly appointed judges of exercising “judicial activism when they give wrong orders.”

They said it is this kind of activism that is fuelling discontent.

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