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Suspended Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Director-General Francis Wangusi has received rare backing from a group of university students.
Two University of Nairobi law students have moved to court seeking to quash the decision by the CA board to send Mr Wangusi on a three-month compulsory leave.
In a new twist to the intrigues at the telecommunications industry regulator, the students argue the grounds used by the board to send Mr Wangusi home are below the constitutional threshold.
“The reasons cited in the letter dated January 12, 2018 go to show that the interested party here in (Francis Wangusi) has been discriminated against if at all the reason have not been used against every other employee and consequently sent all its employees for compulsory leave,” the court papers filed before the Employment and Labour Relations Court read in part.
The case was filed Mr Collins Agwenyi and Humphrey Nyongesa, who describe themselves as students of law keen on the respect for the rule of law.