The speaker of the National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi just save IEBC Chair and his team from the harsh wrath of the MPs.
According to Speaker Muturi, the holders of constitutional offices can only be removed from the office through a petition.
This came after the Public Accounts Comittee ruled that the IEBC officials should vacate office following a repor which implicatedthem in the Sh9 billion procurement scandal at the commission during the election run off in 2017.
In his statement Speaker Muturi said, The observations and findings of the committee with respect to the staff of the commission having been found to be offensive to the Constitution and therefore inadmissible for debate by the House are forthwith expunged from the report.”
The speaker further directed the comitteee chair Opiyo Wandayi to ammend the said report before its taken to parliament.
According to Majority leader Aden Duale on a point of order last week, sought direction from the Speaker on the admissibility of the recommendation of the report which he said was unconstitutional.
“This House must act constitutionally. Nobody here is saying that the commissioners have not committed any crime. Were we to adopt this report, who was going to enforce it? We are avoiding a situation where the House acts in vain.”
He further argued that the particular section of the report flouts the provisions of the Constitution on removal of a member of a constitutional commission.