Is the Kenyan Supreme Court getting all it’s facts right in it’s latest rulings involving elections petitions?
For the past week alone, the Court has vindicated Governors who were accused of gross electoral misconduct during the 2017 General elections.
Among the Governors Vindicated include Embu Governor Martin Wambora better known as the man with 9 lives, then came Homa Bay Governor Cyprian Awiti who yesterday won an appeal at the Supreme Court despite failing twice at the lower courts (The High Court and Court of Appeal).
The Vindication process continued today and this time round it hit Laikipia County where the Court upheld the election of Laikipia Governor Nderitu Mureithi and dismissed the appeal lodged against him.
While dismissing the case on Friday, the judges said that the issue brought before them should have been handled by the disputes tribunal.
Nderitu’s Challenger had argued that the governor should not have been cleared to contest because he switched camp days to the election.
The court also upheld the election of Shinyalu MP Justus Kizito saying that they saw no reason to overturn the decision of the Court of Appeal.
The petitioner Sylverse Anami cannot be allowed to use the Supreme Court to review the IEBC decision which had found that Justus Gezito Mogali and Justus Kizito are one and the same person.
Anami had argued that ODM cleared a different person under a different name in the register.
Do you think that it is time other strict mechanisms were put in place to monitor rulings on various electoral petitions in the Country?