The Nairobi governor by-election will be held by February 15, 2021, which will be within 60 days of the Senate impeachment vote.
Sonko is the second governor to be a victim of Senate s axe following former Kiambu governor Ferdinand Waititu in January this year.
As soon as the Nairobi governor was sent packing by the Senate his removal was gazetted.
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Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka last night gazetted the impeachment in less than hour of the governor’s removal. On Thursday, December 17, 2020, the Senate resolved to remove Hon. Mike Mbuvi Sonko, the Governor of Nairobi City County, from office, by impeachment, read a gazette notice signed by the speaker.
THE STANDARD By
Eric Abuga |
December 12th 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Some of the members of the Kisii County Assembly who were locked outside the assembly premises on Thursday. Police later teargassed the MCAs who were plotting to impeach Speaker David Kombo for allegedly misappropriating members’ insurance fund. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]
The rift between two camps in Kisii County Assembly has deepened after three members were charged in court this week with malicious damage to property estimated to be worth Sh5 million.
Attempts to impeach Assembly Speaker David Kombo have divided Members of the County Assembly (MCAs), with the division escalating earlier this week when the two camps engaged in a confrontation that led to destruction of property within the assembly.