An MCA who had been banished from the Kitui County Assembly precincts and banned from attending Assembly sittings for alleged misconduct has been saved by Kitui High Court that ordered him back.
After missing nine sitting since he was suspended on July 19, the MCA was on Tuesday re-admitted by the Speaker Kevin Katisya.
Kivou ward MCA Sammy Munyithya consequently regained his seat in the Assembly chambers during the morning session. However, even as he re-admitted the ward representative, the assembly speaker was emphatic that and the court order did not absolve him from wrong doing nor facing disciplinary action.
The MCA who previously sponsored a failed impeachment motion against Katisya was on July 19 banned from entering the Kitui County Assembly compound and was also suspended from attending the 16 county assembly sittings by the Speaker.
But the MCA challenged the procedure used to suspend him at the Kitui High Court. On Monday the court issued conservatory orders allowing him back to the Assembly until the substantive suit he had filed is heard and determined.
In the main suit the MCA has sued the Kitui Assembly Speaker as the first respondent and the County Assembly of Kitui as the second respondent.
After the temporary injunction was served on the speaker on Monday and he on Tuesday announced that since the county assembly respected the rule of law, he had to re-admit the MCA even before his suspension lapsed.
The Speaker said the decision to suspend Munyithya was taken after the MCA was found at fault after he snatched an assembly file from the clerk and wandered with it outside the assembly precincts.
The conservatory order issued by Justice R. Limo that was seem by the MWINGI TIMES orders that the suspension of Munyithya from venturing into the precincts of the Kitui County Assembly be suspended until the main suit he had filed in the court was concluded.
The Court further directed that the MCA continues representing the interest of his Kivou ward electorates in the Kitui County Assembly activities until the main suit is heard and determined or the court issues further orders.
Addressing the media after he was allowed into the assembly, MCA Munyithya said he had moved to court to challenge the procedure used to suspend him from attending assembly sitting or setting foot in there. He said now that he was allowed back into the assembly, he will concentrate on serving the interest of his voters in Kivou ward as he awaits the final verdict on the main suit he had filed.
STORY By MWINGI TIMES CORRESPONDENT
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