IEBC officials risk civil jail for failure to comply with court order
Top Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ( IEBC) officials risk going to jail for contempt of court.
IEBC Chairman Issack Hassan, Deputy Commission Secretary Beatrice Sungura and commissioners Lilian Bokeyee, Albert Bwire, Kule Galma Godana, Ambassador Yusuf Nzibo, Abdulahi Sharawe, Thomas Letangule, Muthoni Wangai and Mohammmed Alawi could go to jail for six months for failure to pay salary to former IEBC Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Wilson Shollei after Labour and Employment Court declared his sacking as null and void.
In an application filed under a certificate of urgency before Justice Hellen Wasilwa, Mr Shollei through his lawyer Edwin Sifuna told the court the commission had defied court orders issued last year November by Justice Maureen Onyango in which she ordered that status quo ought to be maintained until the conclusion of a case against the deputy CEO.
“We seek to have Beatrice Sungura, who was at all material times the acting Chief Executive Officer and commission secretary of IEBC, Isaack Hassan, Lilian Bokeyee, Onyango Bwire, Kule Galma Godana, Ambassador Yusuf Nzibo, Abdulahi Sharawe, Thomas Letangule, Muthoni Wangai and Mohammmed Alawi, all members of respondent be committed to civil jail for six months or further period as this court deem for contempt of court,” the application Mr Sifuna read.
The labour court on November 18, 2014 handed Shollei back his job pending the determination of a criminal case against him after finding that he had been unfairly sacked.