By JOHN NGIRACHUMore by this AuthorNational Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi on Tuesday evening obeyed a court order stopping the petition against Auditor-General Edward Ouko but announced that the House had appealed and criticised the judges who issued them. If he had defied the court order as was widely expected, it would have set a very dangerous precedent. The decision to appeal appeared to have been taken much earlier, and quietly, as Mr Muturi said that the notice of the appeal was filed at the High Court last Friday and in the Court of Appeal on Monday. Mr Muturi criticised the order by Justice Mwita as pre-emptive as the finance committee had not made a decision on the petition. “The auditor-general is bestowed with the greatest amount of interaction with the House in the performance of its oversight role,” he added.

Source: Daily Nation March 21, 2017 20:03 UTC