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Meru County PublicServiceBoard CEO Virginia Kawira (second left) and Chairman Kainga Mitu (centre) before the Senate Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration on January 28, 2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]
The High Court in Meru has ordered the dissolution of the County Public Service Board for non-compliance with the two thirds gender rule.
Justice H.M Nyaga upheld the ruling by Justice Linus Kassan that the composition of the Meru County Public Service Board was unconstitutional as it failed the gender representation constitutional requirement.
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