A Kiambu voter has moved to court challenging Deputy Governor James Nyoro's move to reshuffle the county executive on Thursday.

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In the changes, Nyoro swapped county executives for the Trade and Finance dockets Kigo Njenga and Wilson Kangethe, which Bernard Chege Mburu is opposed to.

In his petition, the voter claims Nyoro has no mandate to make such changes, having not been elected in the capacity of the governor.

He says section 30(4) and 5 of the county governments act doesn't allow Nyoro, who has not been appointed by anyone as governor, to make cabinet reshuffles.

He argued that no vetting exercise was conducted before the reshuffle, adding that such can only be approved by the County Assembly, which was as well not involved.

“Reshuffling is both unlawful as well as a smack to the principles of good governance as no process has been undertaken to ascertain if the affected CECs are fit, competent and have capacity to execute the new mandates,” he said in the petition.

According to him, the changes will most likely result to chaos in the county, since Governor Ferdinand Waititu who has since been locked out of office is likely to revise them.

“The illegal acts of the DG will create a stalemate that will gravely affect service delivery to the people of Kiambu especially as one of the dockets affected is Finance,” says the petitioner.

Mr Nyoro and the Attorney General have been listed as respondents, while Waititu and the County Executives have been listed as interested parties.