Jubilee Legislator who earned full salary for two years without working

Jubilee MCA Habiba Hussein (pictured) has lost her seat at the Nairobi County Assembly for chronic absenteeism.
The Jubilee nominated MCA has been away from the assembly sessions and committee sittings for two years neglecting her duties as a county legislator.
Speaker Beatrice Elachi, acting from the report of power and priviledges committee that investigated her before declaring her seat vacant said that she neither wrote nor informed any other member of her reasons for being away.

‘‘I want to tell you sergeant at arms and honorable members to be serious as recommended .. I said this, 2020 things will be different I hereby declare the seat of honorable Habiba vacant.’’ Elachi said.

The Nairobi County Assembly yesterday adopted the report by the Powers and Privileges Committee on the inquiry into the allegations of absenteeism from plenary sittings by honourable members.

The committee stripped Ms. Habiba of her MCA seat and declaring it vacant: “We resolved to invoke provisions of the Constitution of Kenya, Standing Orders of the Nairobi Assembly, the Powers and Privileges Act and the speaker’s advice to declare the seat of Hon Habiba vacant.”

Naftali Mathenge, the committee chairman, said Habiba was excommunicated from the House after she failed to honour summons to explain why she had not been attending plenary sessions and committee sittings.

“Habiba did not appear before the committee despite being invited to explain where she had been during that period. This is a blatant abuse of the law,” read the report in part.

The Jubilee Party, which is the majority in the Nairobi County Assembly, will now have to nominate someone else to take over Habiba’s position.