A high court ruling last week barring the members of county assemblies from impeaching county executives has been criticised by the Uasin Gishu MCAs.
Judge Alfred Mabeya, while sitting in Bungoma last week, declared unconstitutional a section of the County Governments Act that allows the county assemblies to dismiss county executives, saying it contravenes the principle of impartiality.
Uasin Gishu county assembly majority leader Josphat Lowoi has termed the ruling as against the constitution and setting a bad precedent.
“The judgement does not make any sense at all and we’re going to stall the county assembly business if we cannot be allowed to oversight the county executives,” said Lowoi.
“This is going to allow the CeCs (county executive members) to do whatever they want because of lack of checks.”
The county speaker, Isaac Terer, said they are ready to appeal against the ruling, adding that it is a delusion of the law.
“The verdict means that the legislative assemblies have no business in oversight,” Terer said.
MCA Moses Barteng is of the opinion that the county executives are now going to be less effective, adding that it was a bad example set by the court as the MCAs will have little to do in as far as oversight is concerned.