This month, Senate once again voted to uphold the impeachment of Mike Mbuvi Sonko as the Governor of Nairobi County. The top three offices in a county in Kenya are that of the governor, the deputy governor and the county assembly speaker. All three are elective positions on the basis of Article 180 for the governor and deputy governor and Article 178 (1) for the speaker of the county assembly. It therefore should go without saying that to comply with Article 81 (b), the candidates vying for governor and deputy governor in Nairobi in the February 18, 2020 by-election should not be of the same gender. Indeed, it does not augur well for Nairobi County to have only one gender represented at the apex of the county executive, in the office of governor and that of deputy governor.

Source: Standard Digital December 30, 2020 05:36 UTC