By Martin Masai

Notice to withdraw notices to declare vacancies in 8 Wards is part of the compromise reached

Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti’s latest bid to impeach Speaker Anne Kiusya crumbled yesterday after her 20 pro-impeachment MCAs walked straight into a new power reality.
The Wavinya group, led by Majority Leader Nicholas Nzioka Wangondi, had to succumb to negotiations with the Speaker’s 32 loyal MCAs to trade off two demands: dropping the impeachment motion in exchange for halting the process of declaring eight MCAs’ seats vacant. The deal also sought reinstatement of Kalonzo Musyoka’s nephew- Dennis Mutui as Acting Clerk and reversal of the House Business Committee to the old lineup that favoured the Governor’s side.
But the negotiations collapsed at midday. By afternoon, the assembly offices reverberated with chants of “bring the impeachment motion” as pro-Speaker MCAs jeered the stranded Wavinya team. “Bring it on” became the battle cry as the day progressed without a motion and the Wavinya faction groped in darkness over their next move.
The numbers have shrunk dramatically for the Governor. In the March 7 impeachment attempt, she had 33 signatures. Yesterday she had only 20. With a constitutional threshold of 45 MCAs needed to remove the Speaker, the mission was dead on arrival. Parties aligned to UDA and Maendeleo Chap Chap have whipped their members firmly behind Kiusya, cutting off Wavinya’s options.
Adding to their woes is a new Acting Clerk, Mr. Peter Muema, who has signalled he will not allow any motion that lacks the mandatory threshold.

Under the previous Acting Clerk Denis Mutui, such a motion might have sneaked through. Muema rejected the bid to re-table the March 7 motion, saying it had been repudiated by 10 previous signatories and demanded a fresh motion with proper numbers — which the Governor’s side could not provide.
Sources said Wavinya had huddled with Wiper MCAs in Yatta at Kalonzo Musyoka’s farm, where the promise of 2027 Wiper tickets was dangled on condition they impeach the Speaker.

Those MCAs arrived at the assembly at dawn, believing the motion was ready.

Instead, they were confronted with a new arithmetic and a Speaker’s bloc that had tightened its grip.
The scene underscored how far the ground has shifted against the Governor.

With the Clerk’s office and the House Business Committee remaining firm, the once-formidable impeachment push has turned into a political trap for its own architects.
As dusk fell, the Wavinya camp faced a stark reality — no motion, no numbers, no Clerk to bend the rules — and a rising chorus from opponents daring them to “bring it on”.

It was at this point that the Wavinya side reached out again, and a deal was struck to drop the impeachment motion altogether.

In the end, negotiations have won. Not the grandstanding witnessed from March 7,2025, when the impeachment dream was invented to defeat accountability in the use of public resources.

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