How Speaker Moffat Teya survived impeachment


By Stanwicks

Nyamira Assembly Speaker Moffat Teya.
Pic: Courtesy.

Nyamira County Assembly Speaker Moffat Teya has heaved a sigh of relief after the impeachment motion that was being leveled against him was nibbed at the bud.

Teya has been a restless man over the last two weeks but now, he has reason to smile after Leader of Majority Duke Masira helped him overturn the impeachment game that he had almost lost.

Masira who is the leader of business at the Assembly saved Teya from hands of majority members of the House who were determined to bring him down from the office he has occupied for the last four years.

Sources privy to the internal strifes intimated that Teya, a man with crystalline instincts had only Masira as a saviour in the war that is being waged on claims of unpaid allowances for staffs and MCAs as well as power struggles.

The turbulence has seen the House sharply divided for an umpteenth time, even after all MCAs had forged a common front that was on an onslaught to impeach Teya.

The impeachment game changer happened after a midweek morning meeting between Teya and Masira over the contentious unpaid allowances issue.

After the meeting, Masira confessed to Gusii Newser that he changed his stand on Teya's impeachment after fully getting convinced that the claims were farfetched and untrue.

Nyamira Assembly Majority Leader Duke Masira.
He saved Speaker Teya from impeachment.
Pic: Courtesy

"I was the most furious of all the MCAs and staffs over the issues of unpaid allowances. I had moved into Speaker's home to confront him over the allowances, But I instantly changed my mind after I encountered facts about the whole issue. That is what all those MCAs who have changed their minds over the matter have also realized. It is not true that the Sh13 million in question had been misappropriated," Masira said.

The Majority Leader who swung into action with all his apt mobilization might to sway more than 24 MCAs to the Speaker's defense said the allowances to staffs and MCAs were pending bills that were yet to be settled and that those who were making the misappropriation claims were not well informed.

"They have a sinister motive of destabilizing the Assembly but it cannot be allowed," Masira said.

On his part, Teya said he had not come across the impeachment documents but confirmed having the winds that he was being targeted for removal from office.

"I am just hearing it from people," he said.

Magombo Ward MCA Richard Onyinkwa on his part said the impeachment issue was propagated by Teya to cause political mayhem at the House but they(him and those for his impeachment) were now working overdrive to make it real.

"He(Speaker) wanted to hide behind his bad leadership to seek sympathy through by propagating the impeachment motion. But now we are turning the guns on him," Onyinkwa said.

To neutralize the heat, Teya adjourned the Assembly for 14 days

due to what he said was prevention of a possible Covid-19 outbreak after three MCAs were reportedly hospitalized after being taken ill with the virus.

The Assembly resumes business on October 26.





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