The Senate Committee on Labour and Social Welfare continued its inquiry into accessibility and governance in Mombasa on Wednesday, hearing testimony that ranged from accounts of discrimination against persons with disabilities to revelations of intergovernmental gridlock and gambling-related fiscal inefficiencies.

A Senate committee has heard harrowing testimony from disability advocates in Mombasa, who described systemic barriers shutting people with disabilities out of government services despite constitutional guarantees of equal access.

Dr Eric Mutai has once again survived attempts to remove him from office as Kericho Governor after the Senate rejected the impeachment proceedings at the County Assembly on account that the two thirds majority was not achieved.

The Senate proceedings into the impeachment of Kericho Governor Dr. Erick Mutai took an unexpected turn when a Member of the County Assembly (MCA), Hillary Kibet, alleged that he had been offered money and foreign trips in exchange for supporting the Motion to remove the Governor from office.

The County Assembly of Kericho accused Governor Eric Mutai of using his office to harass to humiliate and harass employees often a times demanding favours in return of the officers keeping their jobs.

In its case against the Governor, two staff former employees of the devolved unit, said the County Chief had frequently forced them to contribute money for his fund raisers and other unexplained emergency situations he found himself in in the course of his duties as the Governor.

Kericho Governor, Dr. Erick Mutai has firmly denied all allegations levelled against him by the County Assembly of Kericho as his impeachment trial kicked off before the Senate this Wednesday.

Appearing before the Senate plenary on the first day of the hearing, the embattled county boss dismissed the charges read to him by the Clerk of the Senate, Mr. Jeremiah Nyegenye.

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