Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has allegedly called for the arrest of suspended county legal officer Violet Oyagi.
The lawyer is accused of giving misleading information about the Nairobi Metropolitan Authority which was formulated earlier this year by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Reports indicate the governor has sworn an affidavit to denounce the same and has asked his legal team to speedily follow up the matter.
The Nairobi County government had moved to court on Thursday to question the legitimacy of NAMATA.
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Through its lawyers, the county argued that the entity was created against the law in the absence of formal agreement between parties.
"A suitable Agreement Meeting the requirement of 26 (2) of the Intergovernmental Relation Act, 2011, was never published in the Kenya Gazette notice in respect to the Nairobi county at least 14 days before the effective date of the transfer of delegation of the county functions required," stated the county government.
It further stated that the appointment of Mary Chege, Zacharia Mungai, and Ronald Ndirangu as NAMATA board members was unconstitutional thus should be declared null and void.
President Kenyatta created NAMATA in February under the State Corporations Act to address challenges in the transport sector.
Apparently, it was a consequence of various presidential interventions and directives issued since 2013 that are geared towards redefining the country’s capital as well as the wider Metropolitan Area.
“NAMATA is a bold and visionary policy intervention that, for the first time in our nation’s history, provides a comprehensive and dynamic platform for addressing the decades-old challenges in the transport sector that have bedevilled the Metropolitan Area,” State House spokesperson Manoah Esipisu remarked at the time.
Contrary to the county's claims, State House had stated that the creation of the body was based on the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2013 between the National Government and the county governments of Nairobi, Kiambu, Murang’a, Machakos and Kajiado.
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