Joseph Ndathi: MCAs cannot fire executives for implementing an Act they passed

Kirinyaga, Kenya: Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) threatening to dismiss Education Executive Ann Mwangi over the control of the Bursary Fund are wasting their time, Governor Joseph Ndathi has said.

The governor said the same MCAs, through a legislative Supplement No. 2 in a Special Issue of the Kenya Gazette dated June 13, last year established the Kirinyaga County Bursary Fund Regulations (KCBF), which is in place.

According to documents made available to The Standard, the executive under the Basic Education Act of 2013, has eight key roles in the Fund, ranging from appointment, induction and capacity building of KCBF members, to disbursement of the Fund to the ward committees.

WITHDRAW CIRCULAR

“For the MCA’s to turn around and threaten to impeach Ms Mwangi is self-defeating, unless the same assembly changes the legislation they put in place for the purpose of the bursary fund,” said Mr Ndathi.

On Thursday last week, a motion was tabled at the Assembly without notice, by Tebere Ward Rep Gudson Muchina and passed without any opposition.

It gave the Education Executive a one-week ultimatum within which to withdraw a contentious circular she sent to them on March 10, or face impeachment.

The circular appoints ward administrators and secretaries to the KCBF committees, a move the MCA’s are opposing.