Published on July 26, 2024 by Agencies for Kenya Online News
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A petition has been filed seeking to stop the appointment of opposition-allied leaders John Mbadi, Hassan Joho, Opiyo Wandayi and Wycliffe Oparanya into Cabinet.
In the petition, Julius Ogogoh through Commission for Human Rights and Justice argues that appointment of the four into Cabinet will conflict with the opposition’s Constitutional mandate of oversighitng the government.
“Given the fact that the Interested Parties as members of the official opposition coalition in the National Assembly has a constitutional duty to oversight the function of the Executive and other arms of the government, the nomination and appointment of the Interested Parties into the cabinet and/or government as secretaries shall conflict with their constitutional duty bestowed upon the opposition party by the people of Kenya and the constitution to oversight the government and to provide checks and balance.”
“The Petitioners and the entire citizenry of Kenya stand to suffer great prejudice and a violation and infringement of their constitutional Rights as this amounts to utter violation of the constitution of Kenya and betrayal of the trust bestowed upon the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Aliance (coalition) and the Orange Democratic Party by the people of Kenya,” reads the petition in part.
On Wednesday Ruto appointed Wandayi who is the National Assembly Minority leader, Mbadi (ODM chairman) and the Orange party deputy party leaders Joho and Oparanya to form part of his new Cabinet.
Their names have since been forwarded to Parliament for vetting.
