Kenya Power Lighting and Company Chief Executive Office Ben Chumo.
BY SAM ALFAN.
Employment and Labor relations court has issued temporary orders prohibiting Kenya Power and Lighting Company and CS ministry of Energy and Petroleum considering renewal the tenure of Kenya Power Lighting and Company Chief Executive Office Ben Chumo tenure.
Justice Nelson Abuodha further directed that the application be served on the respondents for inter-parties hearing on December 3rd this year.
In a court documents filed, activist Okiya Omutata claims that Ben Chumo having been born on 11th July 1956, he ought to have vacated office on 11th July 2016, upon attaining the government’s mandatory retirement age of 60 years.
He further states that vide a letter dated 12th June 2016, addressed to the Board of Directors of Kenya Power, Chumo applied for the renewal of his contract, to serve for a further term of three (3) years, with effect from 7th January 2017.
“The Petitioner is praying for orders declaring the impugned extension of service to be inconsistent with the Constitution and other laws of Kenya and, therefore, null and void,” he argues.
Omutatah argues that the Public Service Commission has no capacity under the law to allow the Board to act contrary to the law.
