The High Court of Kenya has ruled that Hagarbul sub-location will remain in the Dadaab sub-county during the hearing of a petition by two residents who have petitioned the High Court to stop the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration from relocating it to the Fafi sub-county.
The petition was launched after Interior CS Kithure Kindiki relocated the sub-location to Fafi in a gazette notice on February 14, prompting residents Abdikamil Abbey Shuri and Zakaria Abdi Daud to seek intervention from the court.
It is the petitioners plea that the administrative unit remains in Dadaab Sub County, and the high court suspend the implementation of the gazette notice recognising the relocation.
Justice John Onyiego sitting at Garissa High Court granted the temporary orders directing the relocation to be halted.
“The petitioners having presented their case carrying along the interests of the people from Fafi and Daadab sub-counties, it is my view that it would be in the public interest that the matter be solved on its merits. I say so for the reason that if the same is not done, then the said people may be prejudiced,” ruled Justice Onyiego.
Abdikamil and Zakaria had sued CS Kindiki alongside the Garissa County Commissioner and the deputy county commissioners for Dadaab and Fafi as respondents in the petition.
They say that the relocation risks creating distress, unnecessary tension and conflict among the members of the Hargabul area who are predominantly from the Awliyahan clan and the Fafi sub-county which is inhabited by the Abudwak clan.
