Meru Governor Mwangaza Moved to Tears by MP’s Impeachment Testimony
Torn and disadvantaged Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza wept during the Senate hearing of her impeachment case on Wednesday afternoon.
Advocate Elias Mutuma cross-examined the Governor, who exhibited an emotive and tearful countenance, regarding certain statements previously made against her by leaders who are suspected of orchestrating the effort to remove her from office.
To purportedly demonstrate that the impeachment is motivated by political animosity, the advocate for the governor presented a series of video excerpts during the Senate plenary.
Tigania East Member of Parliament Mpuru Aburi is seen in one of the videos that moved the Governor to tears; he criticizes her verbally for not having children with her current spouse.
As he continues to speak in Meru’s vernacular language, the member of parliament is captured imbuing a charged address while stroking a stick between his palms.
When requested by her advocate to relay the MP’s remarks to the Senate, Governor Kawira responds as follows:
“He is saying he has given me 9 months to be pregnant and if that is not done. He will do it via what he is holding,” Kawira says before shedding tears.
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The Advocate proceeds to broadcast an additional clip in which Deputy Governor Isaac Mutuma of Meru County is overheard disparaging the Governor’s outreach program, Okolea, which has been the subject of controversy due to her donation of mattresses and cows to residents.
At a public event, the deputy governor of Igembe South, from which he originates, condemns the Okolea program as a poverty program in the video. He then urges the residents of Igembe South to reject the initiative.
“Honorable Speaker for the last 12 years, I have been doing Okolea and this gave me a favor before God. And my deputy who was just a prison askari… God gave us a favor because of this program. And out of this program that raised him from an askari to deputy DG of Meru is the same person is seen on video demeaning the same program that God used to give us favor before Men and Women,” submitted an emotional Governor Kawira.
An additional video segment features Member of Parliament Mpuru Aburi challenging the ethnic background of the Governor and imploring the populace to choose a leader who is indigenous to the Meru region.
Asked to describe the MP’s remarks, she says: “He is saying the father of Kawira Mwangaza is called Njuguna and the mother Mugure and they don’t want to be ruled by a Kikuyu in Meru and that is why they want to change to Peter Munya the first Governor.”
Mwangaza will know her fate today (Wednesday) following her impeachment hearing in the Senate that began on Tuesday, November 7.
The senators will either vote to uphold her impeachment as per the Meru County Assembly motion or dismiss the charges levelled against her by the Members of County Assembly (MCAs)
However, the governor will have two hours to plead her case before the senate plenary before the vote on her case.
Meru Governor Mwangaza Moved to Tears by MP’s Impeachment Testimony