A Nakuru court has suspended the vetting of 10 county executive committee nominees saying the
suit has raised issues that merit its attention.
Justice Stephen Radido of the
Labour and Employment Relations court made the ruling on Thursday.
"The matter needs to be looked at deeply before considering the ruling on October 24," the judge said.
The county assembly was to vet the CEC nominees for two days starting October 23.
But Nakuru West MP Samuel Arama moved to court under a certificate of urgency to stop the process.
He accused Governor Lee Kinyanjui of alleged discrimination in the nominations.
Arama, through his lawyer Samson Nyagaka, said the Governor discriminated certain tribes in the county.
"It is unfair for the Governor to exclude Kisiis, Luhyas, and Luos yet they are represented in the county," he says in his affidavit.
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Arama further averred that Kinyanjui had promised Kisii people a CEC position when the community's delegation was hosted at State House in Nakuru.
He urged the court to bar the county assembly and the Governor from acting on the list saying those sidelined will suffer irreparable loss.
The MP noted that Nakuru is a cosmopolitan county.
He said Kinyanjui will submit a list of chief officers to the assembly next Thursday and he might not get justice if it is not stopped.
The court ordered that the county public service board, Kinyanjui and the county government be served.
The county chief and assembly representative Gordon Ogola told the court Arama should have waited fr the list to be taken to the assembly.
Kinyanjui said the list he unveiled was in Nakuru's best interests and promised to consider more tribes for remaining positions, claims which Arama has refuted in the suit.