Petition filed to bar Cabinet Secretaries from exercising powers over gender rule violation
Election
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The petitioner, Eliud Karanja Matindi, wants the court to declare that the Cabinet Secretaries cannot continue holding themselves out as members of the national executive after the government allegedly failed to comply with a court order requiring it to meet the two-thirds gender rule.
A petition has been filed at the High Court seeking to bar Cabinet Secretaries from continuing to exercise executive powers following the expiry of a 120-day deadline issued to President William Ruto to reconstitute a gender-compliant Cabinet.
The petitioner, Eliud Karanja Matindi, wants the court to declare that the Cabinet Secretaries cannot continue holding themselves out as members of the national executive after the government allegedly failed to comply with a court order requiring it to meet the two-thirds gender rule.