Embattled Meru governor Kawira Mwangaza will know her fate on Friday as the 11-member Special Select Committee tables its report in the afternoon.

The Star has established that the panel chaired by Kakamega senator Boni Khalwale will make a decision on at least six key issues that could make or break the governor's fledgling political career.

The Khalwale-led team is expected to table its report after two days of hearings from both parties that went on up to 2.30 am on Thursday.

It is understood that the committee on Thursday retreated to Windsor Hotel in Kiambu County to write its report on its determination of the proposed impeachment of Mwangaza.

If the committee finds all of the claims unsubstantiated, that will be the end of the matter.

While the team will still have to report to the House on the same, senators are barred from taking any other decision on the matter.

However, if the committee finds proof of the charges — even on just one of the 62 allegations or any of the six the committee has broken them into — the Senate will proceed to vote on the impeachment charges.

Among the issues given more weight by the senators include the employment of Murega Baichu, the governor’s husband, as hustler ambassador in Meru, the roadside appointment of staff to work in the Okolea Programme, and the roadside award of a tender to a contractor to build a perimeter wall in a market in Nkubu.

Others are violations of the PFM Act when she ordered Meru Referral Hospital to spend money at source, the appointment of her husband as Meru Youth Patron, a public office with no legal instruments, and whether or not Mr Baichu was drawing salaries from the public coffers.

The role of her husband in the public affairs of the county and open involvement in politics has rubbed many in the county the wrong way.

It could be the main reason why the impeachment was carried out, the senators had said in the two-day marathon session.

Video clips played at the committee show that Baichu could have also fanned the war with MCAs.

Mwangaza has also been accused of ignoring established structures in the county government and instead creating her own parallel structures.

Her chief of staff Harrison Gatobu, who testified in her support, was accused of upstaging the County Secretary, who is recognised by law as the executor of most of the county’s decisions.

In a country where religion is revered, the governor’s war with the church might also complicate issues for her.

MCAs have accused her of vilifying the Catholic Church, by allegedly calling them part of the “corrupt cartel” in the county.

Father Elias Kinoti was brought in by MCAs to testify against her to support the idea that she has a poor working relationship with the Church.

When asked whether he would support reconciliation efforts, the priest was categorical that he wouldn’t support any such move.

“This is not a place for forgiveness. The Constitution does not provide for forgiveness in such a matter,” he said.

During the two-day hearings, senators questioned the employment of fire fighters to work in a private Okolea Fire Fighting Programme.

The function would ordinarily be done by the county government.