Martha Karua takes her petition to Supreme court

Narc Kenya leader Martha Karua and Kirinyaga Governor Ann Waiguru have been in what we may call as supremacy battle where both of them have been fighting to get the Kirinyaga Gubernatorial seat.Ann Waiguru who is currently the governor of the said county recently won a court hearing over Martha Karua.

However it seem Ms Karua was not content she has now moved to the Supreme Court to appeal the dismissal of her petition against the election of Governor  Waiguru as the Kirinyaga governor in August 2017.

In a notice of appeal filed at the Court of Appeal registry in Nyeri, indicated that she intends to challenge the entire judgment delivered by Justices Roselyn Nambuye, Hannah Okwengu and Stephen Gatembu on December 20, 2018.

According to the notice, “Take notice that the appellant, being dissatisfied with the judgment/order of the honourable court, intends to appeal to the Supreme Court of Kenya against the whole of the said judgment/order.”

In addition she claims there was forgery of the election statutory forms 37A used to transmit results from polling centres to the county tallying centre.

She also says that former Mwea MP Alfred Nderitu and businessman Juma Wambugu, were illegally allowed to man the polling stations.

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Ms Karua is challenging the decision by the three judges to dismiss her claims against IEBC that the governor’s election was not fair since it was marred by malpractices such as bribery and intimidation of voters.

Karua alleged that Governor Waiguru’s tally was inflated by over 48,000 votes.

But the appeal judges, while upholding Ms Waiguru’s win, ruled that Ms Karua failed to prove the claims beyond reasonable doubt.

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