By Nation Reporter
Posted Friday, May 27 2011 at 22:00
Posted Friday, May 27 2011 at 22:00
ODM on Friday resolved to appoint six members to a special committee to vet the three judicial and State Law Office nominees.
The party rejected suggestions from PNU that it retains members of the Ababu Namwamba-led Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, saying it wanted to move away from wrangles in the team that has threatened to stall the implementation of the Constitution.
“If you are an Anglican bishop, how can you choose nuns for the Catholics? Let them make their own appointments then we will meet in the interdenominational prayers, that is the House Business Committee,” ODM chief-whip Jakoyo Midiwo said after a joint parliamentary group cum National Executive Committee meeting.
The meeting at Orange House was chaired by deputy party leader Musalia Mudavadi, who said the Standing Orders allowed the party to appoint six members in the ad hoc committee due to ODM’s strength in Parliament.
Mr Midiwo said he would table the names of the ODM nominees during the House Business Committee meeting on Monday so that it could be taken to the House on Tuesday.
He said that PNU, through Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, had called him to ask for the inclusion of members of the Ababu team in the new committee and that the number of members be increased from 11 to 15 “but I told him we cannot import problems from one committee to another”.
Mr Midiwo and Immigration minister Otieno Kajwang’ said anti-reform forces wanted to use the committee to reject Dr Willy Mutunga’s nomination as Chief Justice.
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