Badi barred from attending Cabinet meetings as court quashes Uhuru order

The High Court sitting in Milimani has quashed a decision by President Uhuru Kenyatta that appointed and included Lieutenant General Mohamed Badi into Cabinet meetings.

Justice Anthony Mrima declared that the decision as contained in Executive order No. 3 of 2020 is illegal.

He also issued an order prohibiting Badi from attending any Cabinet meetings or discharging any functions of the Cabinet.

“There there is no doubt the appointment of Badi into the Cabinet was not approved by the National Assembly. As such it is unclear as to by whom and how Badi will be oversighted. His term of office in the Cabinet also remains an illusion,” the judge said.

Mrima also said it does not find any justification in the decision to include Badi into the Cabinet.

In the case, Kandara MP Alice Wahome moved to court to challenge the constitutionality of the decision to appoint and include Badi, the Director General of Nairobi Metropolitan services into the Cabinet and its committees.

Badi was tasked with the responsibility of transforming the city and dismantling cartels that have held the city at ransom for years.

NMS was put into office on March 18, 2020, by the President nearly a month after then Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko handed over four key functions to the national government.

The transferred functions are county health services, transport, public works, utilities and ancillary services and county government planning and development.