Private legal practitioner, Mr. John Ndebugri has adviced that it will be best if petitioners asking for the recall of Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo to his post to take the matter to court instead of depending on the petition being signed.
After Mr. Domelevo was asked by the president to proceed on leave following a total of 167 days leave accumulated, a group of concerned persons took to gathering signatures that is aimed at putting pressure on the presidency to bring him back to post.
According to Mr. Ndebugri however, the numbers the petitioners will get will not be relevant to the call since this particular matter is a legal one and should be tackled as such.
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“The rule is to go to the court for the court to declare who is right and who is wrong. And I’m saying that all these people, whether they are a thousand or millions, I don’t really think that it inures to their benefit” he said.
The constitutional lawyer, speaking to the calls the group are making in the petition said that their argument especially that the decision to take the said leave is a constitutional right Mr. Domelevo has. According to him the leave is something that is a statutory obligation.
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The thing is that they are wrong to say that the right to leave is a constitutional right but it’s not a statutory obligation. It is a statutory obligation under Section 31 of the Labour Act” he stated.
In the last reports, over 2,800 signatories had been gathered to call for the recall of Mr. Domelevo back to post.
