Speaker gets reprieve after Oparanya convinces them to abort planned impeachment

Kakamega County Assembly Speaker Morris Buluma during his meeting with Senate Public Accounts Committee at Parliament over audit queries. [Boniface Okendo/Standard]

Plans to debate the impeachment of County Assembly Speaker Morris Buluma were scuttled at the last minute after ward reps met Governor Wycliffe Oparanya.

The speaker, an ally of the governor, had been accused of blocking debate on the Auditor General's reports touching on questionable expenditure by the executive and assembly.