Acting Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i [kenyatoday.com]
The high court has temporarily barred acting Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i' from renewing NGO board boss Fazul Mahamed's tenure.
This comes few weeks after activist Okiya Omtatah demanded the immediate exit of NGO Coordination Board boss Fazul Mahamed.
Through the Kenya for Justice and Development Trust (KEJUDE), the activist said he will go to court if Fazul does not leave office.
He wrote to Interior ministry, Public Service Commission, State Corporations Advisory Committee and the Attorney General on November 10 regarding the matter.
The bar will be until a petition by activist Okiya Omtata, saying Mahamed's tenure as the executive director of the board expired on November 23 — or thereabouts, is heard and determined.
He says Matiang’i has not commenced the process of recruiting a replacement and if the court does not intervene, an illegality will be committed.
"As a concerned citizen, I’m aggrieved that in defiance of the law, Fazul continues to be in office as the executive director of the NGO Coordination Board."
Employment and Labour Relations judge Hellen Wasilwa on Wednesday certified the case as urgent.