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Retired President Uhuru Kenyatta has suffered yet another blow after a case filed by the embattled Jubilee secretary general Jeremiah Kioni was dismissed.
In a ruling delivered on June 7, the Internal dispute resolution committee (IDRC) affirmed that Nelson Dzuiya and Joshua Kutuny listed as respondents did not breach the law by convening a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting.
“The Committee finds that the NEC committee held February 10 was convened in accordance with the provisions of the party Constitution,” reads the ruling.
“The respondents did not contravene provisions of the party Constitution in convening the meeting.”
In arriving at the decision, the Committee chaired by Gideon Solonka noted it was persuaded that the complainant (Kioni) had failed to convene a NEC meeting as resolved by the National Management Committee prompting the intervention by the respondents.
Since the August 22 general election, it states, NMC has held four meetings the agenda being to take stock of the election outcome and give direction to the members.
“The material placed before us reveals a systematic blatant disregard of the party Constitution by the complainant aimed at holding the party organs at ransom thus paralysing the activities of the party,” reads the ruling.
The Committee held that the complainant breached his “fiduciary duty in failing to convene any NEC meeting”.
Kioni filed the complaint on May 18 seeking to declare the resolutions reached in the NEC meeting as null and void.
The ruling is now a nail in the coffin of Uhuru’s battle for the heart and soul of the party he founded back in 2017.
It comes hot on the heels of another finding by the Committee declaring his recent Jubilee National Delegates Conference (NDC) illegal.
The Solonko-Committee in its June 2 ruling noted that Uhuru breached the provisions of the party’s constitution when he issued a notice to convene a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on 28th April 2023.
“The respondent (Uhuru) did not act in accordance with the Party constitution in publishing the notices convening the NEC meeting of 28th April 2023 and the SNDC of 22nd May 2023,” the committee stated.
It added that the April 28 National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting was convened irregularly and had no quorum.
Kega has convened a Special National Delegates Convention on July 22 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre.
The resolution, he said, followed a meeting by the National Executive Committee held June 6.
“The meeting noted and agreed with the determination of the Internal Disputes Resolution Committee (IDRC) dated May 30, 2023, which declared the meeting held on May 22, 2023, as null and void,” Kega said. BY THE STAR