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UDA gets 13 new nominated MCAs in Uasin Gishu assembly

Last Thursday, the court ordered IEBC chief executive officer Marjan Hussein Marjan to gazette the new MCAs within 14 days.

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by BY MATHERWS NDANYI

Football28 January 2024 - 09:28
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In Summary


• Justice Nyakundi also ordered the speaker to swear in the new MCAs in the next assembly sitting after their names are gazetted.

• The court had directed that should the IEBC boss fail to gazette the names of the new MCAs within the 14 days, then the speaker would proceed and swear them in as MCAs.


Uasin Gishu assembly speaker Philip Kipngetich Muigei during a session at the assembly in Eldoret on December 2, 2023

Thirteen new UDA nominated MCAs have been gazetted by the IEBC to serve in the Uasin Gishu county assembly.

They are expected to be sworn in by speaker Phillip Muigei.

The IEBC has at the same time degazetted 13 others, who have been serving as MCAs but lost a court battle over the nomination slots.

The move by the IEBC follows an order by High Court judge Reuben Nyakundi.

Last Thursday, the court ordered IEBC chief executive officer Marjan Hussein Marjan to gazette the new MCAs within 14 days.

In a gazette notice dated August 24, the new MCAs include Carolyne Jeptanui, Cherono Carolyne, Everlyne Tirop, Naumi Serem, Pamela Jemutai, Sharon Kogo, Burgei Veronica, Celestine Mutai and Rebecca Jerop under the UDA gender top-up list.

Others are Gereld Kiplagat, Tabitha Wambui, Robert Kiptanui and Regina Chumba to be included under the UDA special category list.

Justice Nyakundi also ordered the speaker to swear in the new MCAs in the next assembly sitting after their names are gazetted.

The court had directed that should the IEBC boss fail to gazette the names of the new MCAs within the 14 days, then the speaker would proceed and swear them in as MCAs.

"That in the event of failure to comply with the court orders within the stipulated time, the applicants [new nominees] shall be deemed to have been duly nominated and sworn in and they will be at liberty to take up their positions as MCAs at the assembly," Nyakundi ordered.

The new UDA nominees had after the elections moved to the court, arguing that their names had been irregularly removed from the original party list of nominated MCAs before they were gazetted.

Those removed and their names degazetted include Naomi Chepkemboi, Roda Kemboi, Rebecca Jerop, Nancy Jemutai, Saida Chepkoech, Sahra Abdi, Magrinah Chebet, Juliet Chelimo and Caroline Cherono, who had been nominated by UDA under the gender top-up list.

Others are Wachira Maina, Belinda Tirop, David Waiganjo and Evelyne Chepkoech nominated by UDA under special category.

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