AfricaPress-Kenya: Jubilee Party has been stopped from firing nominated Senator Isaac Mwaura.
In a statement dated Tuesday, March 30, the court directed that the party, headed by President Uhuru Kenyatta, should refrain from firing the senator until a case he had filed is heard and determined.
Mwaura sued the Jubilee Party as well as the Registrar of Political Parties after his expulsion from the ruling political party.
“The applicant under certificate of urgency is seeking a stay of execution of the orders of the political parties tribunal dated March 26, 2021. I have considered the application, the supporting affidavit, further affidavit and the annextures and I find the matter to be urgent.
“There shall be stay of execution of the impugned orders until the hearing of the application,” read the statement in part
The appellant was also ordered to supply the application to the two respondents.
This comes hours after reports indicated that Mwaura’s name had been removed from the list of Jubilee Party members by the Registrar of Political Parties.
The woes began for the Senator after Jubilee Party’s national chair Nelson Dzuya complained that he had been disloyal.
Nduya claimed that the lawmaker had shifted his allegiance to the United to Democratic Alliance (UDA) despite being nominated by the Jubilee Party.
Mwaura was subsequently grilled by the party’s disciplinary committee over the claims before resulting in his expulsion.
Separately, the fate of five other nominated senators is still hanging in the balance after they were shown the door by the ruling party.
The senators who include Milicent Omanga, Mary Seneta, Falhada Iman, Naomi Waqo, and Victor Prengei were accused of going against the party’s tribunal.
The Political Parties Dispute Tribunal upheld the decision by the Jubilee party’s national management committee after deliberating on the reports by the party’s disciplinary committee.