High Court revokes Matiangi’s board appointments
Information Communication and Technology Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i. PHOTO | FILE
What you need to know:
- Petitioner says appointments were wreaked with irrationality, abuse of power, tainted with bias and in fragrant disregard of the rule of law
- Judge rules that appointment was “done unlawfully and with glaring procedural impropriety
The High Court in Nairobi has revoked Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi’s appointments of board members to the Information Communication Technology Authority, citing procedural impropriety.
Judge George Odunga on Thursday annulled the appointments of six members, saying that it was “done unlawfully and with glaring procedural impropriety.”
In a suit filed by the secretary-general of the ICT Association of Kenya, Mr Adrian Kamotho Njenga, the petitioner said that upon scrutinizing the appointments by the minister, he was “alarmed by glaring irregularities.”
He argued that the Cabinet Secretary, in utter disregard of their concerns, proceeded to launch the board to which he had appointed “his campus cronies.”
“The appointments were wreaked with irrationality, abuse of power, tainted with bias and in fragrant disregard of the rule of law,” said Mr Anthony Kibathi, the petitioner's lawyer.
The ICT Authority board members are Edwin Ochieng Yinda (chairman), Ugas Mohammed, Bertha Dena, Prof Elijah Omwenga, Prof Timothy Mwololo Waema, Esther Njeri Kibere and David Mugo.
