Nyandarua County Assembly Speaker’s gown and wig are among items still missing since the County Assembly was reopened.

 The whereabouts of the attire remain unknown and Speaker Ndegwa Wahome hinted the assembly will have to get another set.

“We consider the gown and wig already defiled. We are getting a fresh set,” Wahome said.

 Wahome, on Wednesday, made a return to his office and presided over a special peaceful sitting for the first time in about a year.

 The sitting attracted a quorum, against earlier fears that lack of enough MCAs could hinder resumption of the assembly sittings. 

Some MCAs who have been on the side fighting the Speaker either attended in person or online.

 Wahome recalled the assembly, which is on recess until February 8, 2022, for a special sitting so that documents related to the County budget making cycle can be tabled.

 Conspicuously missing was leader of majority Ednald King’ori and the deputy speaker Zachary Njeru.

Both have been convicted and sentenced to serve jail term for contempt of court.

The documents were tabled by Murungaru MCA, Kariuki Muchiri on behalf of King’ori.

Special sitting

 MCAs who spoke during the special sitting emphasised the need for reconciliation to allow healing of the rifts that have dogged the assembly since December last year.

 The only United Democratic Alliance (UDA) MCA at the Nyandartua County Assembly, Francis Muraya, might be re-sworn in if it is established that he was not properly sworn in.

 Muraya was elected in a by-election early this year and sworn in by the deputy speaker, Zachary Njeru when the county assembly was in the midst of a leadership wrangle occasioned by attempts to impeach Speaker  Wahome. 

 The assembly’s legal department was tasked to carry out research to establish if the sitting that swear him in was a “properly constituted sitting of the assembly”.

 The matter came up after Muraya was proposed to be named leader of the minority in the assembly. 

Karau ward MCA, Ken Mukira made the proposal saying the assembly has been operating without a holder of the post since all elected MCAs are ruling party Jubilee sponsored, save for two who won their ward seats independently.

Muraya attended a special sitting of the assembly held on Wednesday.