Court declines to suspend audit taskforce formed by President Ruto

Court declines to suspend audit taskforce formed by President Ruto

File photo of President William Ruto. | PHOTO: PCS

The High Court has declined to suspend Gazette Notice 8437 of 2024, which formed a taskforce to audit human resources in the health sector.

However, the court has certified the matter as urgent.

“The applicants are, nonetheless, at liberty to seek interim relief once the substantive motion has been filed and served,” reads the court order.

Three days ago, President William Ruto established a 20-member task force to audit resources in the health sector.

However, the petitioners in the matter argue that the taskforce duplicates and usurps the mandate of a statutory body, the Kenya Health Human Resource Advisory Council under section 30 of the Health Act, 2017.

Through lawyer Ochiel Dudley, the petitioners argue that if a cent of public money or a minute of public time is spent by or on the taskforce, their application will be nugatory.

They want the court to stop any payment to the members of the task force and also seek orders restraining any person from convening, aiding, attending, reporting to, receiving reports from, paying, or facilitating the payment of any public funds to the Presidential Taskforce on Addressing Human Resources for Health.

They also want the court to quash Gazette Notice 8437 of 2024 forming the Presidential Taskforce on Addressing Human Resources.

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