Sunday, July 7, 2024 - Law Society of Kenya(LSK) President Madam Faith Odhiambo has rejected a job offer from President William Ruto.
On Friday, Ruto appointed Faith to the Presidential Task
Force auditing the national debt, according to a gazette notice.
However, in a statement on Saturday LSK,
through its chief executive Florence Muturi, said the task force is
unconstitutional since the government's statutory audits are preserved for the
Auditor General.
The LSK cited a case in which the High Court
specified the Office of the Auditor General as the rightful entity to audit the
accounts of Trans Nzoia County.
"We take note of the recent High Court
decision underscoring the Auditor-General's role in public audit matters in
Ondago v Natembeya & 15 others [2023] KEHC 22268 (19 September 2023)
(Judgment) where the High Court while nullifying a taskforce created to audit
county government debts, asserted that the governor could request the Auditor-
General to conduct a forensic audit," partly read the LSK's communique.
With the foregoing, the attorneys resolved
that their president would not be taking up her appointment.
"The Council of the Law Society of Kenya
has thus resolved that neither our president nor any of our members shall take
up appointments or participate in the said task force," the LSK said.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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