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(ii) an independent candidate supported by at least five hundred registered voters in the ward concerned.
(2) A person is disqualified from being elected a member of a
county assembly if the person—
(a) is a State officer or other public officer, other than a member
of the county assembly;
(b) has, at any time within the five years immediately before the
date of election, held office as a member of the Independent
Electoral and Boundaries Commission;
(c) has not been a citizen of Kenya for at least the ten years
immediately preceding the date of election;
(d) is of unsound mind;
(e) is an undischarged bankrupt;
(f) is serving a sentence of imprisonment of at least six months;
or
(g) has been found, in accordance with any law, to have
misused or abused a State office or public office or to have
contravened Chapter Six.
(3) A person is not disqualified under clause (2) unless all
possibility of appeal or review of the relevant sentence or decision has
been exhausted.
194. (1) The office of a member of a county assembly becomes
Vacation of office of
vacant—
member of county
(a) if the member dies;
(b) if the member is absent from eight sittings of the assembly
without permission, in writing, of the speaker of the
assembly, and is unable to offer satisfactory explanation for
the absence;
(c) if the member is removed from office under this Constitution
or legislation enacted under Article 80;
(d) if the member resigns in writing addressed to the speaker
of the assembly;
assembly.