As details emerge about the cancellation of a Special Session by MPs yesterday, an activist has filed a lawsuit seeking to halt the hiring of a new Clerk of the National Assembly.
Okiya Omtatah has asked the High Court in Nairobi to block the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) and the National Assembly of the 12th Parliament from appointing the Clerk of the National Assembly of the 13th Parliament.
“The court be pleased to issue a temporary order of prohibition restraining the respondents PSC and National Assembly, whether by themselves, or any of their employees or agents or any person claiming to act under their authority, from proceeding to give effect howsoever to the outcome of any interviews held by the PSC in the ongoing recruitment of the Clerk of the National Assembly pending the inter-parte hearing and determination of this Application and or Petition,” Omtatah prayed.
The activist also requests that the court issue a temporary injunction prohibiting the National Assembly from approving any candidate for Clerk of the National Assembly in the ongoing recruitment.
Omtatah went to court on the same day that MPs affiliated with President Uhuru Kenyatta and Azimio Presidential candidate Raila Odinga moved to cancel the planned special sitting after learning that their colleagues affiliated with Deputy President William Ruto planned to move a motion to appoint a new clerk to replace Michael Sialai, who has retired.
“There is no way we were going to be part of an illegality. We became aware of the scheme to sneak in the name of a person of their choice and that is why we had even advised our members not to attend the session,” ODM chairman and Minority Leader in the National Assembly John Mbadi said.
The latest squabble over the appointment of the clerk comes just three months after Ugenya MP David Ochieng’ claimed that a specific candidate “had bought all members” of the PSC and was bragging to other staff that he would get the job.
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