Former Nairobi County speaker Beatrice Elachi was on Friday dealt a blow when a labour court dismissed her motion in Governor Mike Sonko's impeachment case.
In a ruling on Friday, October 23, Judge Byram Ongaya dismissed the motion and ordered Elachi and MCA Peter Imwatok who were respondents in the case to pay the petitioner's costs of the preliminary objection.
"The court finds that as submitted for the petitioner, he needs not to wait for his rights and fundamental freedoms to be violated and thereafter move the Court but he is entitled to arrest the alleged threatened violation as is purportedly done in the instant petition and application accompanying the petition," the judge stated in part.
Elachi had vowed to impeach Governor Sonko accusing him of being behind the chaos witnessed in the Nairobi County Assembly.
In March 2020, Makongeni MCA Peter Imwatok filed an impeachment motion in the county assembly against the governor.
The MCAs claimed that the Governor was fighting the Nairobi Metropolitan Service (NMS) and was behind the speaker's woes.
Sonko however, had a reprieve as the Labour and Employment Court stopped the impeachment motion.
In August 2020, Elachi resigned as County speaker claiming that her life was in danger due to the deteriorating situation in the county administration.
Today I humbly relinquish my position as the Speaker of Nairobi. I want to thank the President for giving me the opportunity to serve for the past three years.
"Now we have NMS and I think it will be able to transform the city. Because I wouldn’t want someone to die here because of myself or anything else, let me thank him (Uhuru) for the opportunity and just leave,” she stated.
In an interview after her sudden resignation, she pointed out that there was no bad blood between her and the governor.
She advised Sonko to tone down on what she described as his boastful tendencies.
