Leave my wife out of this, Wambora warns

By WILFRED AYAGA

Embu Governor Martin Wambora has hit out at the Senate committee that impeached him, accusing it of dragging his wife’s name into the political murk.

He said allegations contained in a report by the Embu County Assembly regarding the irregular allocation of a county assembly vehicle to his wife, and which had formed the basis of the Senate team findings were in bad taste and meant to embarrass his family.

“Let them leave my wife out of this. There are so many lawyers in the Senate, but they don’t read. I gave them so many documents justifying my innocence, but they read none. Instead, they relied on a report by the county assembly, which was biased from the beginning. Mass psychology is the lowest form of reasoning,” he said.

According to the report, Wambora irregularly purchased the vehicle registration number KBU 683T using county assembly funds, before handing it over to his wife. The Senate committee report coincided with that of the county assembly, noting that the vehicle had been irregularly acquired and there was no evidence it had been properly registered. Wambora has now threatened that his wife would write a letter to the Senate team protesting the finding. “They will soon receive the letter from my wife protesting the manner in which her name was mentioned ,” he said.

During the interview, Wambora claimed his political enemies were keen to ‘finish’ him, and the MCAs who had set in motion the impeachment process had been bribed.

“Those fighting me should wait until 2017. If you ask the MCAs, they will tell you who has bribed them,” he said.

He spoke about his family and said he had received messages of support from a cross-section of Kenyans.

“My daughter even bought me a book on why good people suffer. My background as a seminarian cannot allow me to be corrupt. My integrity as a person cannot be compromised,” he said.

Among the people he claimed had called him to offer him support was former Attorney General James Karuga.

“He told me to fight on.”

The Senate impeached him on Tuesday this week, just a day before the Court of Appeal threw out a challenge he had lodged against the Senate proceedings, arguing that he would not get justice.

The ruling by the court on Friday, however, allowed him breathing space after it blocked the Embu county government and assembly speaker from taking any action meant to replace him.