Employment and Labour Relations Court in Nairobi has dealt a blow to 61 employees who worked in former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's office after finding that they were legally sacked.
Justice Hellen Wasilwa in her judgment said that contracts issued to the staff were 'out of local arrangement' which meant their employment was pegged on his stay in office.
The judge dismissed lawyer Lempaa Suyianka's argument that the decision to kick out all the employees who were assigned to Gachagua was political and a violation of the right to serve an office as provided in a contract. "It is clear that the said 61 officers were employed on local agreement terms with a provision that the contract was pegged to the tenure of office of the Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, who has since been impeached as per the evidence adduced," said Wasilwa.
According to her, the employees tied themselves by signing an agreement that their employment would only last during the DP's tenure.
