•The vetting is expected to take place next week after the clerk of the assembly releases a schedule of the same.
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The Nairobi County Assembly has extended its calendar for two weeks in order to clear any pending business.
Majority leader Peter Imwatok who moved the motion on Thursday said that the two weeks will enable the Assembly to achieve the welfare of the members like the car grant.
“The proclamation of the car reimbursement will be achieved during this week as the members will be breaking for Christmas,” he said.
The Assembly Calendar stipulates that the Assembly should go for a long recess from the Regular Sessions unless a special sitting is called.
To that effect, the county assembly select committee on Appointment will proceed with the vetting exercise of Governor Johnson Sakaja’s cabinet after the dismissal by the Employment and Labour relations court which was challenging the exercise.
The vetting is expected to take place next week after the clerk of the assembly releases a schedule of the same.
In his communication to the assembly, county assembly Speaker Kennedy Ngondi said the committee will commence the process immediately.
“I, therefore, call on the Select committee to proceed with the vetting of the ten members of the executive committee as the suspension was today lifted by the court today. The committee should therefore resume with the process as scheduled,” he said.
Ngondi highlighted that the petitioners lacked evidence and their case had no evidence of the case but the Assembly had to hold on to the Vetting process as the Assembly respects the Court.
The Association of Muslim Lawyers and the Nubian Rights Forum had moved to court halting the vetting on grounds that the Governor’s list of CEC nominees was discriminating against them as minorities.
In her ruling, Justice Ann Mwaure dismissed the petition saying it was premature and there was no evidence adduced to show that the various minority said groups had applied for the positions.
She stated that Governor Sakaja followed the due process in his nomination.
“The claim of being discriminated is general and in absence of evidence to prove it, the court is reluctant to assume such a position,” Justice Mwaure ruled.