Employment and Labour Relations Court has allowed four petitioners to lodge their complaint against Kiambaa CDF boss Lorna Muthoni Njoroge before the NGCDF board within seven days.

Justice Byram Ongaya stated that he will strike out the case filed by the petitioners if they failed to file the complaint within the stipulated timelines.

In the case Richard Mulwa Musyoka, Richard Nzine, Nicholas Michael and Elizabeth Mumbi petitioned the court to have Lorna Muthoni Njoroge removed from office, saying that she is unfit to serve.

However when the matter came for further directions on Wednesday lawyer Shadrack Wambui who represents the petitioners urged the court to stay the proceedings so that they can exhaust all the available mechanisms.

“We are seeking the court to stay the matter so as to raise the issues with the body responsible …We are concerned that the court had raised the issue of whether we have exhausted other internal mechanisms…,”lawyer Shardrack told the court

However the CDF Manager opposed the application and urged the court to strike out the petition arguing that the petitioners were wasting court’s time.

“Petitioners are taking the court for granted because they had said that they had made those attempts…This matter can’t be stayed and therefore we ask the matter to be struck out with cost to the second respondent,” she argued through her lawyer.

The judge directed that the matter be mentioned for further directions on 27th June 2024.

Richard Mulwa Musyoka, Richard Nzine, Nicholas Michael and Elizabeth Mumbi accuse the CDF manager  of being involved in nepotism and therefore unfit to serve.

“Lorna Muthoni Njoroge is unfit to hold public office as she engages in behavior that places her office into contempt, disrepute because of abuse of public office and public trust,” reads the petition

Through lawyer Shadrack Wambui, the four petitioners claim they have raised the matter before the court as no any action has been taken against her by the relevant authorities.