Court upholds Danish Onyango's appointment as Wanga's deputy Homa Bay 51 min ago
The petitioners argued that the county had failed to comply with the constitutional requirement that no more than two-thirds of members of elective or appointive public bodies should be of the same gender.
I see nothing wrong with the appointment of the deputy governor as he qualifies in the paradigm of the two-thirds gender rule since the appointment is neither deemed discriminatory nor inconsistent with the provisions of Article 27 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya,” Justice Makau said.
He noted that while some constitutional bodies have express provisions prescribing gender composition, county governments operate under a framework that does not set out a rigid formula for meeting the two-thirds threshold in every instance.
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