Nairobi County Assembly Speaker Beatrice Elachi has accused Governor Mike Sonko of having hand in the latest push by the MCAs to ouster her from office.
MCAs allied to the embattled Speaker have vowed to hit back at the Governor by initiating impeachment motion against him.
Speaker Elachi claimed that her troubles are linked to her battled with clerk Jacob Nhwele and her stand on Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS).
Elachi alleged that the MCAs who want to impeach her are those allied to Governor Sonko and are opposed to NMS who have sealed cash leaks in the City.
She added that Sonko and Ngwele were teaming up to frustrate her as she has stood firm that the latter is not the assembly’s substantive Clark and called out the governor in his attempts to frustrate operations of NMS.
According to Elachi, Governor Sonko had a hidden hand in the return of Nwele so that he can forestall his pending impeachment motion that had been initiated by MCAs but stopped by the court.
“Sonko knows that there is a new clerk who was recently sworn in and he knows that his impeachment can come out of the court now and that is the war he has with me,” said Elachi a local publication.
“He has been using Ngwele in all his cases in court and right now he is very angry because he knows the order that stopped his ouster can be revived now that Ngwele is gone. The impeachment motion is motivated by that,” she added.
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On Tuesday 28 July there was a standoff at the County Assembly of Nairobi after MCAs tried ti serve Elachi with impeachment notice.
Sonkonews established that the impeachment notice was signed by 59 MCAs.
The MCAs also wanted to serve her with a court order suspending the appointment of Edward Gichana as the County Assembly Clerk.
The Nairobi speaker however locked herself in her office with the police blocking the rowdy MCAs from accessing her.
