The Industrial Court has suspended an order by Labour secretary Kazungu
Kambi retiring COTU boss Francis Atwoli from the NSSF board.
Activist
Charles Omanga moved to the court Monday morning seeking orders to stop
Kambi's directive that Atwoli and Federation of Kenya Employers boss
Jacqueline Mugo retire from the NSSF board.
He stated in his petition that the directive by Kambi was unlawful, lacking in basis and out of order.
Kambi
Friday, retired Atwoli and Mugo saying that they had served more than
two terms on the NSSF board as stipulated in the new NSSF act.
The act states that no person shall serve more than two terms of three years each on the board.
Atwoli and Mugo have been on the NSSF board 15 and 11 years respectively.
Both
have come out to state that they will seek legal redress over the
matter claiming that the new act states that the consecutive terms begin
once the new act has been installed, meaning they have both served only
six months in office.
The act came into place in January this year.
Atwoli
on Sunday said that he would organize mass action by workers if the
directive by Kambi was not reversed, stating that the move was an
underhand method of removing him from office.
Mugo and Atwoli
have been against the new controversial NSSF rates which aim to charge
workers 6% of their monthly incomes and have been suspended, as well as
other NSSF projects, which is said to be the cause of the rift between
them and Kambi.
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