Gender and Public Service CAS Beatrice Elachi is headed to the courts to sue the Nairobi County Assembly for defamation.
Elachi said the assembly has continued to tarnish her name despite her willingly leaving the institution 14 months ago.
On August 11, 2020, she left the Assembly by resigning as Speaker noting that she was moving on to a new season in her political career.
“I’m suing the assembly because the matters were discussed on the floor of the house,"
“I have asked my lawyers to go to court for defamation. This is the third time the county assembly of Nairobi has discussed me on defamation and not truth and I will not allow this to continue,” she told the Star today.
“I’m suing the assembly because the matters were discussed on the floor of the House."
WITCH-HUNT CLAIMS
The former Speaker explained that the assembly is operating on a witch-hunt mode, accusing her of all sorts of alleged illegalities.
On Tuesday, the assembly adopted a report that recommended investigative bodies to probe Elachi for violation of the law and abuse office by usurping the powers of the County Assembly Service Board where she served as a chairperson board.
In its finding, the report suggested that promotion and recruitments of staff that took place in 2020 during Elachi’s tenure were against the law and were declared null and void.
However, Elachi defended herself and noted that it was pure malice for the assembly to call her ‘rogue' as she was finishing a promotion process initiated by the late Alex Magelo who was her predecessor.
“Never has it been on record that I stole money while I was the Speaker. Everything I did is on record and It was not Elachi as a person but as the chairperson of the county assembly board. This is pure malice,” Elachi added.
