{"id":14135,"date":"2022-09-20T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=14135"},"modified":"2022-09-20T14:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:26:27","slug":"nairobi-county-mcas-want-sakaja-to-convine-county-assembly-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=14135","title":{"rendered":"Nairobi county MCAs blame Gov Sakaja for delaying their swearing-in, saying they won&#8217;t negotiate about speaker and majority leader positions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nairobi&nbsp; county MCAs elect are demanding an explanation to why, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja is yet to gazette the first sitting of &nbsp;the Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nairobi MCAs accuse Governor Sakaja of delaying their swearing in, say they won&#39;t negotiate about speaker and majority leader positions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PCI8HYHrFK\">pic.twitter.com\/PCI8HYHrFK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Standard Digital (@StandardKenya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StandardKenya\/status\/1572168712853098497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MCA&#8217;s drawn from Azimio la Umoja are wondering why it is taking long for the county chief to convine the assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MCA&#8217;s are reading malice and political witch hunt all geared towards armtwisting the county MCAs to elect&nbsp; a Kenya Kwanza leaning speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>.<strong><em><br>\u201cWe can not do our oversight role, representation and legislation because we have not taken oath&nbsp; of office. This is now too much and Governor Sakaja must come out &nbsp;and tell us why he is taking too long to have the first sitting gazetted.\u201d Gatina Ward&nbsp; MCA Kennedy Swaka lamented<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p><p><\/p><p><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"715\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound8027697721304106307.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound8027697721304106307.jpg 715w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound8027697721304106307-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/fFqu9YnfZg\/\">https:\/\/fb.watch\/fFqu9YnfZg\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We dont want to speculate that the delay has anything to do with the position of speaker and ho<strong><em>use leadership. We all know that Azimio has the majority in the assembly. This cannot be a matter for legal interpretation, our win in terms of numbers is very clear. We dont foresee a scenario where we shall be dragged to court and then the courts agakn say we presented hot air or we were on a wild goose chase No. Governor Sakaja kindly gazette the first sitting we want to hit the ground running and deliver to our people&#8221; addes Ken Swaka <\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Gatina Ward Mca<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>According to the&nbsp; County Government Amendments&nbsp;Act of 2020,&nbsp; the County Assembly will only be fully constituted with the presence of special elect members.<br>After the gazettement of the nominated MCAs&nbsp;the governor will then gazette the da fote the&nbsp;first sitting.<br>\u201cWhenever a new county assembly is elected, the governor by notice in the gazette shall appoint (a) the place of sitting within the county as set out in the third schedule..(b) the date of the first sitting,\u2019\u2019 it states.<\/p><p><\/p><p><br>According to Kilimani MCA Moses Ogeto, they are questioning why the governor has taken too long to gazette their sitting yet other counties have done so.<\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p><p><br>\u201c<strong><em>Let me hope that it is not by design time is not on our side the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission took a lot of time to gazette the names of the nominated MCAs we are now seeing the same with governor Sakaja. We can\u2019t represent our people the elected members have no business with nominations,\u201d Ogeto told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmorningkenya.com\">www.goodmorningkenya.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmorningkenya.com\">com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"988\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound3169607702897588030.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound3169607702897588030.jpg 468w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound3169607702897588030-142x300.jpg 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Hon Absolom aka Matakwey Korogocho ward MCA.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>on his part, Korogocho ward Mca elect Absolom Odhiambo popularly known as Matakwey Mobimba said that the continued delay by Sakaja was hindering service delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<strong><em>On 9th, Nairobians woke up and made a choice, the election cycle is over, we want to serve our people now, however we cannot execute our mandate untilk we are sworn in. Our people are demanding service now. Gov Sakaja please convine  the house asap.&#8221; Said Matakwey<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi&nbsp; county MCAs elect are demanding an explanation to why, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja is yet to gazette the first sitting of &nbsp;the Assembly. Nairobi MCAs accuse Governor Sakaja of delaying their swearing in, say they won&#39;t negotiate about speaker and majority leader positions. pic.twitter.com\/PCI8HYHrFK&mdash; The Standard Digital (@StandardKenya) September 20, 2022 MCA&#8217;s drawn from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14146,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135\/revisions\/14146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}