Afrigather Nairobi — It was a sigh of aid for the Impartial Electoral and Boundaries Fee (IEBC) Deputy Chief Govt Officer Ruth Kulundu after the Employment and Labor relations courtroom on Thursday dominated that she was wrongfully interdicted by her boss, Chief Govt Officer Hussein Marjan.
In her ruling, Justice Linnet Ndolo stated that Marjan breached IEBC’s human useful resource handbook and acted because the decide, the jury and the executioner.
Justice Ndolo additionally noticed that she arrived on the resolution after fastidiously contemplating the steadiness of comfort within the matter, and opined that not one of the respondents would undergo any prejudice.
“Within the gentle of this, the decision that the disciplinary course of initiated towards the petitioner was illegal and that she would undergo irreparable hurt whether it is allowed to proceed the steadiness of comfort tilts within the petitioners favor,” the courtroom dominated.
IEBC CEO Marjan Hussein Marjan accused Kulundu of misconduct for arranging an unlawful fee plenary assembly with out approval.
Within the assembly, the 4 commissioners who disputed the 2022 presidential election outcomes picked regulation companies that will signify the fee within the consolidated presidential election petition.
Her interdiction nevertheless prompted the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya legislators to stage a peaceable march to the Impartial Electoral and Boundaries Fee (IEBC) workplaces in protest.
The lawmakers maintained that Kulundu was interdicted for being a whistleblower within the August 9 elections.
They additional indicated that her interdiction was a witch-hunt choreographed by chairman Wafula Chebukati’s wing within the fee for having assisted the 4 dissenting IEBC commissioners.
