By EDWIN OKOTH More by this AuthorUncertainty continues to surround the fate of the top office at the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority as the term of its current Director-General Pavel Oimeke ends this week. There has not been any communication on whether his tenure ending this Friday will be renewed or a new appointee will take over the office he has occupied since 2017. AUTOMATIC APPOINTMENTPetition 114 of 2020 seeks to bar the Ministry of Energy from reappointing the current office holder for another three years until the hearing and determination with the petitioner seeking the position to be filled competitively. Mr Okumu had also sought conservatory orders restraining the parent ministry from deliberating, renewing and or extending the contract of Mr Oimeke as the director general Epra until the application had been heard and determined. MASSIVE CORRUPTIONThe petitioner accused the Epra boss of irregular issuance of licences and appointments that had failed to ‘reflect the face of Kenya’ with close to 80 percent of his recruits reportedly from one community.

Source: Daily Nation July 27, 2020 05:26 UTC