Wajir County assembly's representative, Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi, requested the Senate committee probing Mohamed Abdi's ouster to summon the governor's wife and two children to testify in the case.
According to Abdullahi, Khaire Omar, Abdi's wife, and Yussuf Abdi and Barhiya Abdi, his son and daughter respectively, are critical in the case.
Furthermore, he also wanted Osman Abdi Jimale summoned since he has been a signatory and beneficiary of nearly all contracts awarded by the county government.
The senior counsel said, "The county assembly's case revolved around the Governor's family. The governor and his wife and children have played a critical role in degradation of governance in Wajir County."
However, through his lawyers Paul Nyamodi and Ndegwa Njiru, impeached Wajir Governor Mohammed Abdi on Wednesday opposed a request by the county assembly to summon his family members to testify in the case.
Nyamodi said, "As a matter of law, where as the three witnesses may be competent to testify against the governor, they are not compellable."
According to the other lawyer, Njiru, the county assembly is on a fishing expedition.
"If we are to summon the family to testify against their father, the legal and social question is the future of cohesiveness of the family?" Njiru questioned.
Abdi's lawyers went further to reject the request by the county assembly to provide a new affidavit by a witnesses, arguing that the move is prejudicial as the governor has not seen the new evidence.
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