A member of Kisii County assembly on Monday told a Nakuru court that her complaint over orders issued by the court reinstating two assembly officials suspended over alleged misappropriation of the assembly’s Sh9.5 million insurance cover was out of anger.
Ms Tabitha Okongo had been summoned for raising a complaint over orders issued by a Nakuru judge reinstating the two despite cases having been filed at the Kisumu law courts.
She had launched a complaint against Justice Radido through a letter addressed to the Nakuru resident judge dated May 20, 2015 accusing the employment and labour relations court Justice Stephen Radido of being a 'shop for justice' for the two officials.
“Few days to implementation of their sacking, the two came with ‘strange' orders that they have been reinstated by a Nakuru judge,” Ms Okong’o told the court during her cross-examination.
According to her, orders reinstating the sacked Kisii County assembly clerk James Nyaoga and assembly director of finance Joseph Amenya in cases initially filed at Kisumu and transferred to Nakuru were strange.
“The officers started bragging that the assembly had been overwhelmed. They even threatened me after I raised the concern over the matter,” she explained to the court, adding that she had reported the matter at Kisii Central police station.
The two senior officials are accused of conspiring with APA insurance company to embezzle the Sh9.5 million county assembly members medical insurance fund.
The MCA said she raised the complaint individually as a citizen, upset member of the affected assembly and as member of the assembly’s legal committee.