Nyamira: Daniel Orina suspended over claims of financial impropriety

Nyamira County Assembly Clerk Daniel Orina has been suspended over abuse of office.

Mr Orina was given a three-month compulsory leave to await his appearance before various assembly committees to clear his name.

County Speaker Moffat Teya said Mr Orina was sent home following accusations of financial impropriety.

Mr Orina is accused of failing to remit more than Sh12.5 million as gratuities for former Ward Reps.

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The former MCAs have for months been holding regular protests outside the precincts of the assembly.

Mr Orina is also under investigations for the alleged loss of Sh1.4 million deducted in March 2016 as gratuities which authorities say he has not accounted for.

He is also said to have failed to communicate the redeployment of three staff who worked in the office of the former speaker.

The same staff still continued to draw salaries and allowances befitting their former status long after they had been moved.

Mr Teya said the clerk also altered minutes of the county public service board on recruited a staff and pushed them to a higher rank instead of cleaners as was early planned.

The clerk furthers stands accused of granting a ‘topping up’ of car and mortgage loan to the MCAs and former Speaker against the regulations governing the fund.

He also granted himself a Sh2 million as car loan without any policy regulating staff loans, the speaker said.

But in a rejoinder, Mr Orina termed the accusations as a political witch-hunt adding that he acted within the law.

'MALICE'

“I did everything under the law and anybody alleging malice on the way I did business as clerk is doing so to milk political capital out of it,” Mr Orina said.

He said he was not afraid to move on if pushed out.

“If am not afraid to move on if they feel so but my conscience is clear that I did not act outside the dictates of the law,” he said.

He said the non-remittance of the gratuities of the Ward Reps at the year under review was because of the so many businesses that cluttered the calendar which depleted the accounts but had purposed to do the remittances later.

On Tuesday, some former Ward Reps accused the clerk of subjecting them to unnecessary suffering due to failure to account for their gratuities.