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COMMENTARY | By The Anchor Editor

The plot to remove the Speaker of Machakos County Assembly is dead. It died not from lack of effort—but from excess of foolishness.

What began as a bold political move has now turned into an endless joke. And not a very funny one.

When 33 MCAs allied to Governor Wavinya Ndeti first launched the impeachment move, it was thought to be foolproof.

To impeach the speaker, the 59- member assembly requires 45 members. But they were just 33. 22 stood opposed. But they still put up shows that they had the numbers.

Soon, they started trying everything. They’ve shouted. and schemed. They have dined. They have travelled. They have had drinking binges. They’ve even tried to use police to their advantage as they unleashed  violence at the assembly precincts.

The result? Zero. Their numbers have not grown. Even at the Senate, there is nothing to advance impeachment.

It’s like trying to light a fire with wet matchsticks—dramatic flailing, no flame.

The Speaker Anne Kiusys still has her seat. She is holding two injunctions halting two impeachment motions brought by the same team. There are two contempt proceedings hanging around the necks of the Governor’s loyalists. Emerging from the Senate encounter, they are now  nursing their pride, contending with a few court warnings. Indeed, one or two may also be nursing actual injuries.

They will not count their losses. Instead, they are counting their financial gains because their funder is fabled to have cash stashed all the way to Europe.

Rather than count the cost, they are now recycling old tactics. Like kids repeating the same wrong answer in an exam, hoping the teacher changes the question.

And what of the Executive? Oh, the silence. Denials. Pretence. New schemes. But silence, as they say, can be very loud.

There’s enough smoke here to suggest fire. Enough fingerprints on the script. This doesn’t look like a rogue mission. It looks like a heavily sponsored misadventure. The stuff only done by those in drunken stupor- intoxicated by cash and power.

When they took their drama to the Senate, the room was  left confused. Unprepared and bereft of dignity the aggressors showcased. When the committee gave guidance. They trashed it.  Incompetent, inconsistent, incoherent, and incorrigible is the badge they grabbed… truth to them, apparently, is inconvenient.

Let’s be honest: this isn’t leadership. It’s political theatre without a plot. A power struggle disguised as principle.

The governor may have wanted to show strength. What was seen was a spectacular weakness. A loud wrong, swing—and a miss. A score she can not attain, even by mistake.

And now, her loyal MCAs are stuck in a maze of their own making. Shouting down the corridors like lost tourists with broken compasses.

Meanwhile, service delivery is on pause. Development is stalled. Public trust? Sinking faster than a leaky canoe in River Athi.

Machakos deserves better.

We are not short of real problems. Roads, jobs, water, waste disposal, better health, and accountability. But instead of fixing them, we get noise. We get stunts.

This motion must collapse. It already has, in truth. Time to stop pretending.

The longer this charade continues, the more it smells of desperation. Like fish left out too long in the sun.

Let those behind it retreat with what’s left of their dignity. And please, for all our sakes—no more new tricks. We’ve seen this show. It wasn’t good the first time.

Let the speaker work. Let the Assembly work. Let the governor work. Senator Agnes Muthama, too. Machakos Girls must work for the people to return their trust.

Or at the very least—let them stop working against each other.

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