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“You have elected me to various positions in the city and I have never failed you. This will not be the first time,” he said.
He also promised to end the budget impasse to ensure service delivery in the city is not grounded.
Mr Mutura was to be sworn in on Friday last week but the ceremony was postponed after the assigned judge, Justice Jairus Ngaah, arrived past the stipulated time.
The new development follows the confirmation of Sonko’s impeachment by the Senate last week Thursday, paving way for Mr Mutura to take over as acting governor for 60 days since Nairobi has no deputy governor.
The new development means that NMS will now access its Sh27.1 billion budget, City Hall Sh8.4 billion and the county assembly Sh2 billion.
City Hall and NMS had been facing total paralysis after former governor Mike Sonko refused to sign the warrants a document needed by the National Treasury, Controller of Budget and the Central Bank to authorise withdrawal of funds from the County Revenue Fund.
Consequently, county employees, MCAs and assembly staff had not been paid their salaries for the last two months after the Controller of Budget stopped the use of Vote on Accounts by the county to run its recurrent expenditure after the passage of the budget in October.
According to the ODPP, Gaitho’s family had failed to inform the office of this development, triggering the decision reversing earlier directions that the suspects be charged for carving out 70 acres from his land, which they later subdivided and obtained title deeds.
In convincing the judge, the family had attached a letter by ODPP dated February 3, 2020, addressed to the DCI Bahati following a complaint by Gaitho’s relatives that investigations into their land case was taking too long.
The letter, signed by Daniel Kariuki, Senior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions reads in part:
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THE STANDARD By
Kamau Muthoni |
December 12th 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
The Court of Appeal has ordered a hotel to deposit $150,000 (Sh16.7 million) to allow it temporarily suspend a judgment that requires it to compensate a tourist for the death of his wife and daughter.
Justices William Ouko, Wanjiru Karanja and Martha Koome ordered Castle Forest Lodge to deposit the money in a joint and interest-earning account within 45 days, failing which it will be required to pay Jeffrey Brown Sh41 million as had been ordered by the High Court.
Mr Brown was awarded the money for the loss of his wife and one-year-old daughter who were trampled to death by an elephant in Mount Kenya Forest.