Embakasi East Member of Parliament, Babu Owino, has laid blame on Energy Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir for the tragic gas explosion in Embakasi that claimed the lives of 10 people and left several injured on the morning of Friday, February 2, 2024.
The legislator during the Senate Energy Committee hearing on Wednesday Feb 14 faulted the CS for his defiance, giving room for his impeachment for his failure to honor a Senate summon to answers on the tragic gas explosion.
“It’s an insult for a CS not to obey the orders, the summons given by this honourable senate,” Owino asserted.
The legislator during the meeting said that the CS failed to ensure proper regulation and oversight despite the company in question having been denied a trading license for failure to meet the set criteria for an LPG storage and filling plant in that area.
“The CS is both criminally culpable because they said that they didn’t issue the licenses but the issue is because he owes Kenyans a duty of care but became negligent, he ought to have followed up and known why this company that isn’t issued with a license to trade is proceeding to do so as he is also vicariously liable under the law of Tort,” added the MP.
“Therefore the CS for energy Mr. David Chirchir has proven to be an unreliable witness who on the witness stand should be impeached. When a witness is unreliable then impeachment of a witness must always follow,” he further said.
Owino further questioned the credibility of Chirchir as a witness, suggesting that his refusal to adhere to the summons raised concerns about his reliability and accountability calling for his immediate impeachment.
“Therefore the CS for energy Mr. David Chirchir has proven to be an unreliable witness who on the witness stand should be impeached. When a witness is unreliable then impeachment of a witness must always follow,” said the MP.