{"id":77808,"date":"2024-08-13T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/senate-to-hold-special-sitting-tomorrow-on-mwangaza-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T10:07:39","slug":"senate-to-hold-special-sitting-tomorrow-on-mwangaza-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/senate-to-hold-special-sitting-tomorrow-on-mwangaza-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate to hold special sitting tomorrow on Mwangaza impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 13 \u2013 The Senate is set to hold a special sitting Wednesday afternoon to consider impeachment charges against Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senate Speaker Amason Kingi convened a special sitting in a special gazette notice to begin considering the allegations against Mwangaza.<\/p>\n<p>Kingi stated he received a letter from the Speaker of the County Assembly of Meru dated August 9.<\/p>\n<p>Senators will begin with voting on whether to hear the matter in plenary or to form a special committee to probe the allegations levelled against Mwangaza.<\/p>\n<p>If the Senators vote to go the Special Commitee route, the team will have to report back on whether it has been able to substantiate any of the charges.<\/p>\n<p>If any of the allegations are found to have been substantiated, the Senate plenary will vote on whether to dismiss or uphold the impeachment.on to the House.<\/p>\n<p>Mwangaza was on Thursday, following allegations of gross violations of the constitution, gross misconduct and abuse of office.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 13 \u2013 The Senate is set to hold a special sitting Wednesday afternoon to consider impeachment charges against Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza. Senate Speaker Amason Kingi convened a special sitting in a special gazette notice to begin considering the allegations against Mwangaza. Kingi stated he received a letter from the Speaker of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}