BY PHEOBE WANJOHI.
Nairobi County Assembly has been given a green light to vet Anne Kananu Mwenda, who has been nominated by Governor Mike Sonko to be his deputy.
This was after the High court declined to stop the process, pending the hearing and determination of a corruption case Governor Sonko is facing.
In a ruling, Justice Mumbi Ngugi doubted whether the court had a jurisdiction to hear the petition filed by Peter Odhiambo Agoro. She asked the petitioner to consider issue of jurisdiction.
The Governor through lawyer Harrison Kinyanjui protested that he has not been served with the petition and there was need to demonstrate that he never ceased having powers of a Governor merely because he facing a criminal case.
Agoro moved to court seeking to stop the process and Sonko barred from nominating any other person in the position of the deputy Governor.
He claimed that the Governor breached the provisions of the constitution by discharging his duties as the Nairobi Governor.
He said Sonko’s decision to appoint the DG after one year and nine months after Supreme Court advisory opinion was issued, is mischievous and in bad faith.
