[David Njaaga, Standard]A parliamentary committee has ordered the reinstatement of IEBC Communications Manager Tabitha Mutemi (pictured) as a board member of the Media Council of Kenya (MCK). The council member had been blocked from accessing the council’s offices at Britam House in Upper Hill and her profile pulled down from the website of the media regulator. “The process of her removal has not been exhausted and as long as it has not been exhausted, she remains a board member,” Ogeto told the committee. However, the Solicitor General told the committee that Mutemi’s hiring as board member was in contravention of the IEBC Act. He gave a similar scenario when former MCK chairman Charles Kerich was appointed as member of the Nairobi County Executive Committee and was subsequently advised to resign.

Source: Standard Digital March 03, 2021 18:31 UTC