Senator Orwoba Faces Blow As High Court Affirms 3-Month Suspension

Nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba has faced a huge blow after High Court upheld her decision to be suspended.

The decision to suspend Orwoba was made by the Senate in September last year to suspend her from participating in Parliamentary activities for three months for gross misconduct.

She had also alleged that there was discrimination in parliament by posting various messages on the Senate Business WhatsApp group a report made by the powers and privileges committee.

The ruling was made by Justice Mugambi who agreed with the decision made by the Senate noting that the Nominated Senator had been given a chance to appear before the Senate Committee to defend herself but failed to do so.

Senator Gloria Orwoba was provided with opportunity to appear and state her case, presumably even raising all manner of preliminary issues before the Senate powers and privileges committee but she instead opted not to participate and walked out on the committee.

Justice Lawrence Mugambi said.

The judge said he did not find an infringement of the right to fair administrative action or the right to fair hearing in the circumstances of the case and therefore dismissed the petition filed by Orwoba with costs to the respondents.

With the ruling, Senator Orwoba will loss certain personal benefits until May this year when she will be required to appear before the house and apologise before being readmitted.