Outspoken Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has suggested that professionals working both in the private and public sector be allowed back to work should they lose in the upcoming elections.
In a statement posted on his official Twitter on Thursday, January 6, the Chama Cha Kazi party leader said the move would encourage professionals to take up leadership positions.
“To derisk our politics for professionals, anyone in the private and public sector should get leave of duty to enable them to vie. If they win they resign. If they lose they go back to their jobs,
“Otherwise tutosheke na wakora and those whose highest qualification is a driving license,” he legislator said.
Kuria’s sentiments come hours after the employment and labour relations court suspended section 34 (6) of the Elections Act, which requires public servants to resign by February 9, if they want to join elective politics.
Judge Monica Mbaru’s order came after an application was filed by Julius Wainaina seeking the court to suspend the act. The act stated that all public officers need to resign six months before the polls if they are intending to vie in the general elections.
The IEBC Chairman had already made it clear that by the 9th of February this year all the public officers are required to have resigned.
“All public officers intending to contest in the August 9 General Election must resign at least six months to the date of the General Election. That is the law that must be complied with,” IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati said.
By now, Public officers have at least 34 days to resign so as not to go against the law.
State officers including the President, the Deputy President, governors, and their deputies as well as MPs and MCAs are however immune to the said law.
