Embarrassing scenes in Parliament: Gloria Orwoba bundled out, car impounded
By Nancy Marende, August 27, 2025Former nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba’s vehicle was towed away after she used it to block the Senate gate.
The incident occurred on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, shortly after she was denied access to the Senate, despite citing a court order that she claimed temporarily reinstated her to her position.
Orwoba was seen attempting to prevent the tow truck from taking her vehicle, struggling to dismantle the chains securing it, but her efforts proved futile.
Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale attempted to intervene and calm the situation, although his efforts were unsuccessful.
Orwoba continued to push back against the enforcement team as they towed away her white Land Cruiser Prado, but the standoff ended unsuccessfully.
The confrontation ended with three female police officers manhandling her and escorting her away from the scene.
The Senate gate
Earlier, she had staged a protest at the Senate gate, demanding entry into the chambers.
Orwoba described the Senate sitting discussing the Kericho Governor’s impeachment as illegal, arguing that Consolata Wakwabubi, who was recently sworn in to replace her, was a stranger in the House.
She insisted that Wakwabubi’s swearing-in was unlawful and therefore invalidated the proceedings.
“As long as the lady called Consolata Wakwabubi is sitting in the Senate even now, that sitting is illegal. That is a stranger in the flow of the house; there is no impeachment that is going on with a stranger in the flow of the house.”
She further argued that any decision on the impeachment motion could later be nullified by the courts on the basis that an illegitimate member was present during the deliberations.
“That will be a basis of an appeal of whatever outcome that will come out of the impeachment because they have a stranger on the floor of the house,” she added.
Orwoba added that, despite the day being a gazetted Katiba day, the Senate Speaker proceeded with what she termed an illegal sitting.
She told Kericho residents that the process seeking to remove their governor from office was flawed since it was being conducted with an unlawfully sworn-in member taking part in the proceedings.