The State was yesterday given 30 days by the high court to respond to allegations of exploitation of public funds in the installation of a Wi-Fi project in Nakuru town.
Nakuru high court judge Abigael Mshila issued the directives after the state counsel, Yvonne Khatambi, sought for more time to file an affidavit in response to the allegations.
Khatambi noted that she had not received any instructions on the way forward about the questioning of the project said to have stalled from the attorney general and requested for a last adjournment of the case.
The judge directed that the matter be mentioned on November 11 for the purposes of fixing a hearing date of the case.
The Nakuru County government sought to be struck out of the case, citing that the project was initiated by the central government and their duty was to make sure it got implemented successfully.
Through lawyer Tom Ojienda, the county government said that the government should be compelled to explain the breakdown of the expenditure.
Ojienda noted that the project was undertaken at the insistence of State House and that the county government never provided any funds for it.
In the matter, Counties Efficiency and Development, the Law Society of Kenya and Nakuru East MP David Gikaria have sued the county government regarding the much-hyped programme that failed a few hours after its launch in a colourful ceremony in Nakuru town.
The project fronted by State House official Dennis Itumbi in partnership with Nakuru County government was launched on March 2014.
The applicants want the county government compelled to provide information relating to use of more than Sh300 million that was spent on the failed project.