The High Court has extended orders suspending the establishment of the presidential task force on forensic audit of public debt.
Justice Lawrence Mugambi at the same time allowed a request made by the petitioners in the case -Dr Magare Gikenyi and Eliud Matindi- to serve some of the respondents through a newspaper of national circulation by way of advertisement.
This is after the court was informed that some of the respondents in their individual capacity have not been served with the petition in court.
The orders were extended till September 18 when further directions will be issued in the case.
The court issued the orders earlier this month after the petitioners argued that the work of auditing public debt is a constitutionally mandated function of the auditor general and not any task force appointed by the executive or any other person.
Before this, President William Ruto appointed a presidential task force through Executive Order No. 4.
The establishment was part of the austerity measures following the President’s withdrawal of the contentious Finance Bill 2024.
The purpose of the task force was to audit the public debt within 90 days and report back to the President.