Kericho County gazettes special sitting to debate Governor Mutai’s impeachment motion
By Lutta Njomo, August 10, 2025Speaker of the County Assembly of Kericho, Patrick Mutai, has convened a special sitting to debate the notice of motion for the removal of Governor Erick Mutai.
Through a gazette notice published on the Kenya Law website on Saturday, August 9, 2025, the speaker notified the members of the Kericho County Assembly that the special sitting is scheduled for Friday, August 15, 2025.
Kiprotich Rogony tabled the impeachment motion, which is set for deliberations.
“PURSUANT to Standing Order No. 29 of the Kericho County Assembly Standing Orders, on the request of the County Assembly’s
Leader of Majority, I have appointed Friday, 15th August, 2025, starting at 10.00 a.m., to be a special sitting whose agenda shall be to debate on the notice of motion by Honourable Kiprotich Rogony on the removal by impeachment of Dr. Erick Mutai as Kericho County Governor,” the notice dated Friday, August 8, 2025, read in part.
Mutai asks Ruto to dissolve county
The gazettement of the special sitting came a day after Governor Mutai asked President William Ruto to dissolve Kericho County.
The governor further revealed he will be embarking on a countywide drive to collect signatures to back the petition to dissolve the county.
“I am therefore officially pursuing a constitutional petition for the dissolution of the County Government of Kericho under Article 192 of the Constitution of Kenya,” Mutai announced.
He added, “I invite the residents of Kericho to consider and pass a constitutional petition for the dissolution of the county government. Tomorrow, we will begin the collection of signatures.”
Surviving first impeachment
In October 2024, senators voted to uphold a preliminary objection that effectively terminated the impeachment proceedings against Governor Mutai.
A total of 34 senators voted in favour of the objection raised by Governor Mutai’s legal team, led by Counsel Katwa Kigen, while 10 senators opposed it.
The objection raised by Mutai’s defence centred on whether the impeachment proceedings in the Kericho County Assembly met the two-thirds threshold required under section 33 of the County Governments Act and the Kericho County Standing Orders.
Counsel Kigen argued that only 31, rather than the required 32, members of the County Assembly voted to approve the impeachment motion, rendering the process invalid.