MP On The Spot Over Threats To Molest Kawira Mwangaza
Her defence team played videos in front of Senators indicating explicit remarks by several politicians in Meru County in a relentless push to have her impeached.
Marvin Chege 
Embattled Meru Governor, Kawira Mwangaza was haunted during her physical appearance before the Senate on Wednesday, November 8 by a series of past videos indicating how she was subjected to threats of molestation.
As she was giving her submissions during the ongoing impeachment trial, her defence team played videos in front of Senators indicating explicit remarks by several politicians in Meru County in a relentless push to have her impeached.
One such video, labelled 3A by the defence team, captured the words of Tigania East Member of Parliament (MP) Mpuru Aburi, which the defence team believed was the genesis of the Keberi movement that it claims is aimed at kicking her out of office.
"Kawira Mwangaza should be told to respect men. 'Bring that stick, where is it?'. I have come with this stick replicating the male organ. The stick is for Kawira Mwangaza. This stick is for penetrating Kawira Mwangaza. She was sluted by men and became wide.
Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza in a police car in Imenti on Wednesday, October 18, 2023. /KAWIRA MWANGAZA
"She is only left with this stick as all men have left her. And she will know I usually say it and it happens. Do you want us to insert it inside her?" Aburi said in the video that was played before the Senators.
"Are you able to explain what he is saying?" Mwangaza was asked.
The county boss however struggled to make clear the context of Aburi's sentiments, saying "He is talking about... that they will use that thing to… " before she broke down in tears.
"Because it has been done by so many men and now they are ready. As Members of Parliament, him being the leader to do that to me. And he has recruited so many young men for the purpose of that Kiberi movement together with the deputy speaker of this House," Kawira recollected herself and submitted before the Senators.
The governor also broke down to tears as the Senate replayed a clip of a group of angry youth slaughtering a cow believed to be six months pregnant, which she was donating to a vulnerable family.
During the proceedings, Mwangaza also claimed that her deputy Isaac Mutuma is a beneficiary of an Okolea Program that forms part of the issues surrounding her impeachment hearing, adding that it was the programme that shot him into the spotlight.
She said she had been running the programme for 12 years around the county.
"My deputy governor was a 'prison askari', and this program was the one that elevated us to lead the county government, and, unfortunately, he is dismissing a program that elevated him," she said.
"In this video, my deputy is telling residents of where he comes from to reject the Okolea program as it's for the poor."
She continued to explain that the deputy governor mobilised youth who were chanting songs, against her saying they would support her deputy for the gubernatorial position.
"That is my deputy governor with some youth from his area saying the governor does not have a home, and only does prostitution in the country. They are praising him to take over the position of the governor of Meru, because, I am just a woman before them," she explained.
"The MP is saying the father of Kawira is a Kikuyu and the mother is also from Kikuyu and they don't want to be ruled by a Kikuyu in Meru and they want to be ruled by a Meru."
The governor was also tasked by the Senate to explain her slogan, "Kaende Kaende, Kabaki Kabaki" after the Members of County Assembly (MCA) complained that the slogan implied that she did not care about the issues raised by the electorate and other leaders.
Mwangaza defended herself noting that the slogan was solely used as a development rallying call.
