Assistant minister stopped from running CDF accounts
Kasarani MP Elizabeth Ongoro has been stopped from running her Constituency Development Fund bank accounts.
The High Court froze the accounts and barred a newly-appointed CDF committee from taking office.
Judge David Majanja said “serious issues had been raised over the awarding of tenders by the MP.”
The judge also blocked the CDF board chief executive from effecting any changes to the list of Kasarani CDF officials.
Lawyer Ben Milimo told the court that Mrs Ongoro “has carried out a coup in attempting to oust the legally elected officials.”
Those elected in February last year were Mr Chrispin Ouma Onang’o (chairman), Ms Doris Nyaboke Nyabera (treasurer) and Mr Paul Onyango Anyango (secretary).
Mrs Ongoro, as MP, is the patron.
Mr Milimo told Mr Justice Majanja that the ousting and replacement of CDF officials was done without due regard to legal procedure and the fundamental rules of natural justice.
“No reasons were given for their removal,” the lawyer added.
The judge heard that the MP, who is also Nairobi Metropolitan assistant minister, allegedly called a meeting at the Kasarani CDF offices at Kariobangi’s Engyo Plaza on July 22, this year, but “none of the incumbent committee members had been invited.”
According to Mr Milimo, the secretary of the CDF committee is the official convener of meetings.
In his affidavit, Mr Onang’o says Mrs Ongoro went to the CDF offices at around 7.30pm and “carried away files and snatched the keys from the secretary on instructions that the CDF committee had been dissolved and a new one installed.”
Replace the three
The judge heard that Mrs Ongoro sought to replace the three with Mr Richard Nyangolo, Mr Otsyekh Ouda and Ms Pamela Mudha.
The judge was told that “unless the court intervened, there would be irregular withdrawals of funds from CDF kitty by unlawfully appointed persons.”
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