Three days after the swearing in of Garissa county assembly members and election of the speaker, a group of county assembly representatives-elect that absconded the exercise have said that they will be moving to court to challenge the exercise.
The exercise was marred with confusion after a section of the elected members opted to stay away over disagreement of the election. Out of the 30 elected members only 18 were present to take the oath of affirmation to their new office.
Twelve of the members who absconded the exercise and who were all from one clan were protesting over the decision by two of the clans which have got the governor and county women representative in the last general election to again take the speaker’s seat.
The leaders while addressing the press in Garissa at the weekend claimed that it was unfair and against the interests of the county for the Auliyahan clan, which has governor Nadhif Jama and County women representative Shukran Hussein Gure to again take the speaker’s position.
“How will one clan out of the three major clans in the county be allowed to take all crucial county positions. That is unfair and against the required checks and balances in the running of the county. Garissa needs an all inclusive leadership based on fair representation not stealing type leadership, we therefore condemn this elections in the strongest terms possible,” said Nasir Mohamed of Nanigi ward.
The county representatives-elects while terming the whole exercise as “illegal, unconstitutional and a thing of the past” said that they were consulting with their lawyers with a view of seeking redress in court.
Garissa High Court Judge Stella Mutuku proceeded with the swearing in of the leaders elected despite a section of the members staying away from the crucial ceremony.
Mohamed Abey Mohamed from the Aulian clan was elected as the speaker. he garnered all the eighteen votes that were casted beating a field seventeen other aspirants to the speaker position.
The deputy speaker position went to Abubakar Mohamed Shide from the Abdalla clan and he was voted in unopposed.
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