Osotsi Ousted as Senate Watchdog Committee Chair After No-Confidence Vote

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The decision, made during a committee meeting on Wednesday, came a day after the Senate Business Committee reshuffled the panel’s membership, dropping both Osotsi and the committee’s vice chairperson, Homa Bay Senator Eddy Oketch.

Members accused Osotsi of running the influential watchdog committee without consulting colleagues and making unilateral decisions on its affairs.

Nominated Senator Raphael Chimera, who moved the motion, dismissed claims that the ouster was politically motivated, saying members had lost confidence in Osotsi’s leadership style.

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“As members of the committee, we felt we needed to address the conduct and the way the chairperson had been running the affairs of the committee. There is nothing much about politics. It was an opportunity for the committee to put its house in order,” Chimera said.

He accused the Vihiga senator of treating the committee as his personal office instead of a collective oversight body.

“The senator has been running this committee like personal property. On many occasions, he failed to consult the membership on decisions affecting the committee. You would wake up to meetings having been postponed without prior consultation,” Chimera said.

“It was always his way or the highway. Members felt there was no sense of collective responsibility. We need a team player who listens to all members so that the committee can move together.”

Chimera said the committee’s oversight mandate requires teamwork and consensus, arguing that members had resolved a change in leadership was necessary to improve its operations.

“This is an oversight committee that needs a lot of teamwork and collective responsibility. Members felt they had had enough and wanted another chairperson who would collectively steer the committee,” he said.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya

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