Nairobi County Assembly Speaker Beatrice Elachi has said that lawyer Miguna Miguna might not be a deputy governor anytime soon.
According to Elachi Miguna must formalize hi citizenship with government first before being vetted.
Speaking on Thursday morning, Elachi said that the process might more than two months.
“I will tell him, first of all you are a Canadian and until you clear your issues with the Kenyan government, then is when we can now understand that we have a Deputy Governor, the law states very clearly that you have to be a Kenyan. You know there are procedures also when you are vying as a member and this is a political position and so you have to go through the same vetting of a political position,” she said on Citizen Radio Thursday morning.
She explained that only then can the County Assembly take up the matter and vet him for the post.
“It can take us three, four months. It means Nairobi residents will not have a deputy governor until September, November. First of all we have to clear with that side; see Miguna enter Kenya and then now we will know we have a nominee and start thinking how to proceed to ensure we get him through the right process,” she said.
Elachi further stated that Sonko's move to appoint Miguna was according to the law.
“My boss has done what the law is telling him. For him he has followed… you want a deputy governor, this is what I feel, this is my nominee; from there, he will leave it now to us. We are also very independent and so now us we will follow the law because we are the ones who create those laws. As you can see, the handshake is doing something.”
Sonko appoited Miguna on Wednesday evening stating that he had met all the constitutional threshold for the position.