Labour Cabinet Secretary Dr. Alfred Mutua distanced himself from the ongoing wrangles between Governor Wavinya Ndeti and County Speaker Anne Kiusya on the latter’s planned impeachment by a section of MCAs.

Speaking during a show on a Kamba vernacular radio station, Mutua revealed that he had earlier held a phone conversation with Governor Ndeti where the governor asked for his support for the speaker to be impeached, only for him to reject such a proposal.

“I was called by the governor asking me to have my people support her in ensuring we remove the speaker from office. I told her that wasn’t right because after impeaching the speaker, the same MCAs will have her probably impeached next,” Mutua alluded.

He labelled the legislators pushing for Kiusya’s removal from office as a money thirsty lot without any agenda.

“Machakos need peace, not impeachment. I don’t want to interfere with Machakos county affairs. I served my period and moved out, but because I distanced myself from the speaker’s impeachment, the governor is accusing me of meddling with the affairs of the county,” he added.

The CS’s utterances come amid simmering rivalry in the Machakos County Assembly, where the speaker on Tuesday suspended the plenary and all committee sittings until further notice.

On April 2, 2025, proceedings were stopped to have the speaker impeached until a case is filed the speaker and two others is heard and directions given by the court.

About 33 MCAs filed a notice of Motion citing incompetence, abuse of office and gross violation of the constitution by the speaker as reasons for her removal.

The Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka, since the impeachment process of the speaker started boiling up, hasn’t uttered a word even though Machakos senator Agnes Kavindu is calling for the warring parties to have a consensus.

“The battles are too much, and this will derail development. I want to ask the governor to sit down with the assembly to solve the problem amicably. So far, I haven’t understood the reasons behind the speaker’s removal, and such should not hold hostage service delivery to the people of Machakos,” Kavindu told journalists in a press conference.

She noted that it was wrong for MCAs to resolve into physical fights instead of doing legislative jobs.

“What is going on in Machakos will at long last affect the presidency of Kalonzo Musyoka. The other counties will wonder if Kalonzo can’t control his region, how will he control the whole Kenya,” Kavindu retaliated.

Machakos Deputy Governor Francis Mwangangi, in his bid, has instead asked the Wiper party leader to leave the Machakos matters to them to deal with as he traverses the country to seek support.

“The best the party leader should do is to be left to move to other regions and we be left here at home to wrestle because I see there is no much problems to warrant his voice,” Mwangangi said during a burial ceremony attended by Kalonzo in Mua, Machakos town.  

Both the speaker and the governor are battling removal predicaments. The speaker is facing MCA’s axe while three concerned Machakos residents have presented a petition before the same assembly laying grounds on why Ndeti is unfit to hold a public office.