This archive report was first published on 15 August 2019.
On July 10, 2019, Communications Authority of Kenya Director General Francis Wangusi appeared before the Senate ICT Committee at County Hall in Nairobi to discuss the protection of customer data by telecommunication companies.
However, the leadership wrangles at the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) took a new turn on August 15, 2019, when the court allowed outgoing Director-General Francis Wangusi to stay past his term that lapses next week.
The new development poses another legal challenge for the board of directors, which was inaugurated last month, besides raising concern over the possible stalling of operations at the country's key regulator.
The Consumer Federation of Kenya (Cofek) filed an application at the Labour Relations Court challenging the replacement of Wangusi on the basis that the board is not properly constituted.
The court set the hearing date of the case for August 27 and directed Mr Wangusi to stay on in the meantime.
Earlier in May, activist Okiya Omtata filed a case challenging ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru's move to appoint the new board of directors, arguing that the process was flawed.
Mr Omtata argued that the appointment process of the authority's directors and director-general had been undermined by amendments to the Kenya Information and Communications Act (KICA) passed earlier this year.
The Miscellaneous Amendments Bill, 2018, expunged clauses to the KICA Act, 2013, that mandated the authority to replace the board chairman and director general through a selection panel.
