By DICKSON ODHIAMBO
KISUMU.
BUSINESS Operations at the Kisumu
County Assembly has been paralyzed after its Speaker Ann Adul yesterday
adjourned it indefinitely.
Following the move, the fate of the
Finance Bill now hangs in the limbo because it has not been passed into law
with the deadline being yesterday {Tuesday}.
On Tuesday this week, Kisumu County
Assembly Speaker Ann Adul indefinitely adjourned the operations of the county
Assembly after a serious disagreement occurred following a move by some MCAs
who wanted to bring in a motion seeking to dissolve the County Assembly Public
Service Board.
In a strange twist of events, the
Assembly’s Mace which is the sole symbol of Authority at the County Assembly
has been taken by the Speaker Ann Adul to the Kisumu Central Police Station in
unclear circumstance, a move that a number of MCAs led by the Majority Party
Leader has vehemently condemned terming it as ill-advised.
However, a section of more than 30
MCAs led its Majority Leader Samwel Ong’ou out the total 49 MCAs has dismissed
the move as illegal and maintained that there is no such reports in its
Yesterday’s Hansard records about the
indefinite adjournment of the Kisumu
County Assembly by the Speaker.
“We have been taken by a surprise
after one of the officers at the Kisumu County Assembly’s Clerk officer
informed some of the MCAs that the Speaker had directed that there is no season
today {Wednesday} and proper reasons for this has not been given,” Ong’ou said
in a press briefing after attending today’s session at County Assembly without
the Speaker or her Deputy.
He said the MCAs who were in
attendance decided to seat at the Assembly as a committee of the Whole House,
adding that they summoned the Chief Sergeant at-Arm to explain how the mace was
taken to the Police Station.
The MCAs who were present also
resolve to investigate the office of the Speaker on how the Mace was taken to
the Police Station, adding that they also want clear explanation on what the
police and the Speaker were doing at the County Assembly at night.
He added that they have also
suspended the Acting Clerk to the County Assembly in line with the
disappearance of the Mace from the County Assembly.
On the other hand, a group of MCAs
allied to the Speaker led by Deputy Speaker Pamela Apondi Omino said the
problem started when the County Assembly begun to summon County Executive
Members so as to shade more light on various issues.
They said the entire scenario
revolves around the Supremacy battle among some leaders at the Kisumu County.
They said even if the County
Assembly Public Service Board was to be removed there is laid down regulations
on its removal.
They claimed a serious division is
there among the Members of the County Assembly Public Service Board, claiming
that the Leader of Majority Samwel Ong’ou is not ready to work with other Board
Members to execute its mandate well.
They called on the Governor Jack
Ranguma to come up and help bringing all the leaders of the Kisumu County
together.
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