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Activist seeks to block creation of Transport agency

Institute of Social Accountability Chairperson Wanjiru Gikonyo. [Photo: Courtesy]

A civil society activist has gone to court seeking to quash the creation of the Nairobi Metropolitan Transport Authority (Namata) by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Wanjiru Gikonyo, the national co-ordinator for The Institute for Social Accountability, wants the High Court to declare Namata unconstitutional as the agency usurps the powers of the county government.

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