Nyamira County Assembly leadership wrangles have taken a new twist after the Senate outlawed the faction headed by Speaker Enock Okero and nullified all businesses that were done outside gazetted Assembly chambers.
The Senate on Wednesday debated an interim progress report of the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations which passed among other recommendations the decision to outlaw the Bunge Mashinani sittings that had been sought as alternative Assembly sittings following persistent chaos that were occasioned by the contentious ouster of Mr Okero as the speaker.
The Committee which is chaired by Wajir Senator Mohammed Abass informed the House that the Bunge Mashinani initiative was illegally constituted and that all the business it conducted was illegal.
While debating on the Report, Homabay Senator Otieno Kajwang blamed the Judiciary in Nyamira for issuing conflicting court orders which he said were the core of the leadership crisis. "We are having two county assemblies conducting all sorts of businesses in parallels.
