Embattled Kisumu CEC Finance impeached as 37 MCAs support the motion.

 CEC Finance and Economic Planning Nerry Achar{Right} and his Tourism Counterpart Achie Alai in a past press briefing.Achar has been impeached today after 37 Kisumu MCAs voted to dismiss him-File Photo.

By Dickson Odhiambo.

August 13, 2019.

Embattled Kisumu CEC Finance impeached as 37 MCAs support the motion.

THE County Assembly of Kisumu has made good its recent threat and now impeached the embattled County Executive Committee member in charge Finance and Economic Planning.

The Assembly in a special sitting chaired by its Speaker today has discussed a report on recommendations made against the County Government of Kisumu CEC Finance Nerry Achar whom had been accused of incompetency among other accusations and adopted it.

During the debate on the report and voting, 37 Members of the County Assembly supported it and voted that the CEC Finance be impeached and cease to transact any business on behalf of the County Government of Kisumu.

Only three Members of the County Assembly voted against the report which has now seen the besieged County Executive Committee member for Finance impeached.

With the impeachment motion going through, the CEC Finance at the County Government of Kisumu stand dismissed in accordance to the County Assembly of Kisumu’s Standing Orders.

The County Executive Committee member in charge of Finance’s impeachment comes barely a few days after the Members of the County Assembly of Kisumu vowed not to transact any kind of business with him on behalf of the county Government of Kisumu.

Last week, the MCAs who made the resolutions during their Kamkunji meeting vowed to go on with the issue of impeaching the embattled CEC Finance and have made their threat good today where they have impeached him.

Reading the committee’s Solutions after the Speaker’s Kamkunji chaired by Kisumu County Assembly Speaker Onyango Oloo, chairman of the committee Steve Owiti said it has come up with four recommendations to the County Assembly on the allegations levelled against the finance CEC.

He said one of the resolutions is that the Committee has found the CEC Finance culpable of the allegation that he is incompetent hence cannot hold a public office within the county government of Kisumu.

“The CEC in charge of Finance in Kisumu County was given a chance for two days to appear before the Committee of the County Assembly but he failed to do so. This means he disregarded the process,” the Chair says.

The Select Committee Chair has also recommended to the Assembly that the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and EACC to take up matters on the issues bordering criminality as alleged against the Finance CEC.

“We have issues of pending bills which cannot be substantiated by the Executive wing of the county Government hence this needs to be investigated as we have recommended,” he said.

The chair said the third resolution is that the County Assembly as a wing of the county Government of Kisumu will not transact any business with the Current CEC finance should he continue to be in office.

“We have recommended that the County Assembly as the legislative wing of the county Government ceases to transact any business with the current CEC finance and we don’t recognize him as the county Assembly of Kisumu,” he added.

The Committee has recommended that the Kisumu Governor Prof. Peter Anyang Nyong’o dismiss with immediate effect the current finance CEC after the Assembly adopts the report.

The County Assembly of Kisumu last week received a court order restraining it from carrying out the impeachment of the Kisumu County CEC in charge of Finance after Mr. Nerry Achar moved to court to block his impeachment by the Assembly.

The impeachment also comes a few day after a section of the youth under the banner of Youth Caucus of Kisumu demanded that Kisumu Governor Prof. Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o immediately sack the CEC Finance due to alleged incompetency.

The Caucus had threatened to eject the embattled CEC Finance from office by today should he continue to stay in the docket.

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