{"id":90239,"date":"2024-09-11T14:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/nakuru-mcas-oust-incompetent-majority-leader-in-unanimous-vote\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:03:37","slug":"nakuru-mcas-oust-incompetent-majority-leader-in-unanimous-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/nakuru-mcas-oust-incompetent-majority-leader-in-unanimous-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakuru MCAs oust \u2018incompetent\u2019 Majority Leader in unanimous vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAKURU, Kenya, Sep 11 \u2014 The Majority Party in Nakuru County Assembly has ousted its leader in a unanimous vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Members of the County Assembly drawn from the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) accussed Alex Langat of obtructing their oversight role in a resolution dated September 11.<\/p>\n<p>Though a letter signed by Biashara Ward MCA, Fadhili Msuri, the ward representatives said they reached the decision during a meeting held at a local hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is to inform the Speaker of the decision made during the meeting on Monday, September 9 where all the 31 County Representatives allied to UDA unanimously voted to remove the majority leader,\u201d read the letter.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Msuri also cited Langat\u2019s failure to call meeting of Majority Party MCAs to address key issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLangat has not called a meeting for UDA members for two years, thereby denying them a platform to discuss matters crucial to the party,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>While maintaining that the ouster was in accordance with the Nakuru County Assembly Standing Orders, Msuri accused Langat of protecting corrupt individuals at the Nakuru County Government from accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Majority Leader has persistently obstructed MCAs in carrying out their oversight role in significant corruption cases within the executive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Msuri cited the deafeat of a recent motion where the MCAs wanted to impeach Nakuru County Government Secretary Samuel Mwaura.<\/p>\n<p>The MCAs elected Keringet MCA William Mutai to replace Langat.<\/p>\n<p>They were hopeful that the change would maintain the County Assembly\u2019s integrity and effective execution of its mandate.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAKURU, Kenya, Sep 11 \u2014 The Majority Party in Nakuru County Assembly has ousted its leader in a unanimous vote. Members of the County Assembly drawn from the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) accussed Alex Langat of obtructing their oversight role in a resolution dated September 11. Though a letter signed by Biashara Ward MCA, Fadhili [&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-90239","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\/90239","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=90239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}