Mandera County Assembly leaders.[Photo/Nation]
The Mandera County Assembly wants the Attorney General Githu Muigai to apologise for claiming that they debated and passed a motion to establish the Peoples’ Assembly.
In accordance with the Chair of the Economic Freedom Party Isack Abey, the leaders want Muigai to withdraw the claims through a written apology; failure to which they have threatened to initiate legal action.
“There is no way Mandera County Assembly could have associated, let alone passed a motion on the People’s Assembly as suggested by the office of the Attorney General in a sworn affidavit before the court of law,” said Abey during a press conference Wednesday.
On Monday Muigai filed a petition at the Milimani Law Courts challenging the constitutionality of the People’s Assemblies having been proposed by 15 County Assemblies.
Muigai went to the High Court hoping to stop the launching of the People’s Assembly and seeking orders suppressing the resolutions passed by 15 assemblies of which Mandera was clustered.
Abel argued that the association painted a bad image of the leaders noting that it could damage the reputation of the county and lower their chances of securing government appointments.
“The (Jubilee) party has 28 members of county assembly in Mandera and five MPs and we support the government so it beats reason that we would support an opposition motion,” he said.