Migori MCAs have initiated a move towards impeaching embattled governor Okoth Obado. Obado is currently behind bars as he faces charges for the Murder of Rongo University student Sharon Otieno.
Reports claim that as early as 6pm yesterday 23 of the 60 members of the county assembly had signed the petition to remove Obado on grounds of integrity, claiming he disgraced himself and his position has become untenable.
However the assembly Majority leader defended the governor and told off those scheming to impeach him.
“We are aware of those plans but nothing has been presented to the assembly yet. When they do we will deal with it then,” Lawrence Onyago is reported to have said by The Star yesterday.
Obado was arrested last Friday after recording statements in Kisumu and Nairobi. He has been accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend, Sharon Otieno, between September 3-4.
He denied the charged before High Court judge Jessie Lessit on Monday and was remanded at Industrial Area remand prison until the court rules on his bail application on Thursday.
Besides the murder accusations, Obado and his close allies are under investigation by the EACC for alleged money laundering in which millions of shillings from the Migori country have been paid out to a ring of connected companies in dubious contracts.
Some of the bank accounts of the suspect companies, including those held by his wife Helen, have been frozen after the EACC obtained court orders.
The anti- graft agency is also tracing the trail of multi-million transactions that include overseas accounts.