Ugandan representative in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) Fred Mukasa Mbidde has promised spearhead efforts to drag the Kenyan government court over the delay to elect its members to the Assembly.
According to Mbidde, the Kenyan government insists it will first conduct presidential elections scheduled for August this year, before dealing with the issue of its EALA representation.
Currently, all EA countries except Kenya have already submitted names for their duly elected members to the EAC Parliament.
“South Sudan was once sued for failure to conduct polls for representatives in the Assembly when President Salva Kiir passed a decree which delayed the swearing in of members of the assembly,” Mbidde said while briefing the media at the Democratic Party headquarters today.
Kenya is set to hold elections on August 8, which will pit leading contenders, incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta and political nemesis Raila Odinga, against each other, a development observers say has affected the country’s programme to elect its EALA members.
