Kakamega senator Cleophas Malala is under fire after he claimed that Kirinyaga residents have no business to dictate how the senate should determine governor Anne Waiguru’s impeachment motion.
Malala who was speaking during a motion to determine whether Waiguru’s case should be heard by a committee or the whole senate.
He said that the senate cannot be controlled by a group of people sitting in a certain corner of the country deciding on how senators should conduct their business.
“The Senate is an independent organ, people of Kirinyaga County cannot therefore dictate how we transact,”he said.
Malala was referring to the recent demonstrations that have been witnessed in Kirinyaga, with the residents crying to the senate to hear the case as a plenary.
The residents went ahead to even call on President Kenyatta and ODM party leader Raila Odinga to help them get justice.
However, Elgeyo Marakwet senator Kipchumba Murkomen told off senator Malala, arguing that their powers belong to the people of the republic of Kenya.
Murkomen said that Malala was out of order to say that people of Kirinyaga should not decide on how the senate should transact its business.
Kenyans on Twitter however, put Malala under fire, blasting him for making such a statement.
Some argued that it was a disgrace of national magnitude if a whole senator can talk like that.
Here are some of the reactions from Kenyans on Twitter.
