Like the famous song All My Enemies Are Suffering, those who prayed for the downfall of Nyamira Governor Amos Nyaribo might as well be licking their wounds.
This is after the Senate, led by Speaker Amason Kingi, on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, found that the Nyamira County Assembly did not meet the two-thirds threshold required to oust a governor.
During the session, 38 senators voted to uphold a preliminary objection filed by Nyaribo’s legal team, while only 4 opposed it.
That outcome ended the impeachment process on what many lawmakers described as a clear numerical issue.
Threshold not met
The governor’s lawyers had insisted that the Assembly simply lacked the numbers needed.
“The assembly did not meet the constitutionally required two-thirds majority needed to pass an impeachment motion,” the Governor’s legal team aegued.
Senate Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot pressed further on whether the case was properly before the House.
“We unfortunately must ask ourselves whether this matter is properly before us as a House.
“Have we been properly invited, or has a governor come through the door, or has this matter been thrown through the window?,” Aaron Cheruiyot asked.
Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei echoed the concern, pointing to the mathematics behind the threshold.
He noted that “impeachment is both a political and quasi judicial process and must follow strict procedural standards,” adding that with only 23 members voting, “the principle under Section 33 has not been met.”
Speaker Kingi later clarified the legal reasoning behind the ruling.
In his words, the matter before the Senate was a “pure preliminary objection,” one that only needed interpretation of uncontested facts.
He reminded lawmakers of earlier precedents such as Kericho I and Kericho II, where the same principles guided the House.
Nyaribo makes Gusii political history
With the objection sustained, Nyaribo now survives yet another impeachment attempt. In fact, he enters the political history books as the only governor from the Gusii region to be impeached three times and survive all attempts.
The governor’s latest escape has revived conversations about Nyamira’s political temperature, the Assembly’s internal divisions and the national calls for a clear impeachment procedure law.
Cheruiyot captured this frustration during the debate, saying, “If we had set out an impeachment procedure bill, we would not be debating these issues today.”
For now, the Senate has closed the file on this attempt, leaving Nyaribo still firmly in office and his political rivals returning to the drawing board.
