The High Court will today hear a case in which KETRACO boss Antony Wamukota is challenging his suspension from office.
On Tuesday, Wamukota moved to court to challenge a decision that suspended him from office pending a probe into the Loiyangalani-Suswa power line project.
He termed his suspension illegal, arguing that he was never given an opportunity to be heard.
On November 15, the board of directors of the state-owned Kenya Electricity Transmission Company suspended Wamukota for 12 months.
Wamukota in his court papers said the board made the decision under express directions from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, which was contrary to their human resource policy and procedures.
“My illegal suspension was a planned, and predetermined decision influenced by the EACC which KETRACO’s board deliberately decided to overlook and flout its Human Resource Policy and Procedures Manual by taking the most distasteful decision of illegally and immediately suspending me,” he said in his court papers.
He wants Ketraco directed to set aside the suspension and order for his immediate reinstatement pending inter parties' hearing and determination of the application and petition.
Elsewhere a man who allegedly robbed a city businessman some Sh2000 at knife point will be sentenced today.
He will be sentenced by a Kibera Magistrate after the court found him guilty of the offence.
He is said to have robbed the businessman of the said cash on July 12, 2020, and used force against him.
