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The High Court yesterday temporarily suspended Uasin Gishu County Assembly sittings. The move by the court follows a court case that had been filed by a civil society group challenging its composition.

Justice Wananda Anuro issued the orders in a case filed by Centre Against Torture (CAT) executive director Kimutai Kirui.

The Judge ordered that the sittings and operations of the assembly be suspended pending the hearing and determination of the case before him.

“An order is hereby issued suspending all official sittings/meetings, deliberations by members of the county assembly of Uasin Gishu Assembly pending the hearing and determination of this application”, reads part of Justice Anuro’s order.

Kirui moved to court after an earlier court decision vacated the nomination of nine UDA members to the assembly to fulfill the two-third requirement.

 According to Kirui, the county assembly falls short of the required membership because the women and marginalised are not adequately represented. He further argued that the County Assembly has therefore been operating illegally.

He held that the county assembly of Uasin Gishu has no business carrying out transactions and deliberations/sittings when it is not properly constituted.