COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
A Kericho high court on Monday suspended swearing in of KTDA Director John Chebochok pending ruling of case filed by lobby groups challenging his election over his alleged sexual harassment expose by BBC. Chebochok was elected the Director of Toror Tea Factory but lobby groups have challenged it. “That in the meantime the AGM scheduled […]
Omar Lali is set to be charged with the murder of his late girlfriend, Tecra Muigai, after a court found him criminally liable for her death. The ruling, delivered by Senior Principal Magistrate Zainab Abdul, directed the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to initiate murder charges against Lali. “I find Omar Lali criminally culpable for […]
Elizabeth Murugi Wamocha, a manager at Ola Petrol Station, was arraigned before a Milimani court on Monday, facing charges of stealing Sh 10 million from the company. She appeared before Magistrate Gilbert Shikwe and denied the charges. According to the prosecution, Wamocha, while serving as the manager of the Ola OTC branch in Nairobi, allegedly […]
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua will know tomorrow if the court will halt the Senate from debating a motion seeking his impeachment. The Senate is scheduled to begin the impeachment trial on Wednesday, with both the National Assembly and the Deputy President allotted five hours each to present their cases before a final vote. Through his […]
Mombasa County Lands CEC Mohammed Hussein aka Amadoh has got relief after the high court issued anticipatory bail in a case where a blogger was assaulted and sodomised. This is after he moved to court seeking for anticipatory bail in relation to the said case. Justice Wendy Micheni granted him a Sh 1 million bond […]
The senate has accused DP Rigathi Gachagua of forum shopping by filing same cases in different courts in a bid to get orders stopping his impeachment. Lawyer Paul Nyamodi for the senate told Justice Chacha Mwita that there are similar matters with issued raised in this case are pending before the other court. In this […]
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s cases challenging his impeachment will now be heard by a bench constituted by the Chief Justice. This is after Justice Lawrence Mugambi allowed an application by Gachagua’s lawyers to transfer the files to CJ Martha Koome to constitute a bench of an uneven number to hear them. In his ruling, Justice […]
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has suffered a setback yet again after the high court for the second time declined to issue orders stopping his impeachment tomorrow. “This court has noted there are several other matters touching on the same issues . I find merit in placing it before the Presiding Judge who will give directions […]
An SDA elder has challenged today’s public participation hearings on removal of DP Rigathi Gachagua saying thousands of SDA followers will not go as they will be in church. Samson Nyaberi an SDA elder at Ruai church asked the court to stop the hearings pending hearing of the matter. “Petitioner is concerned that his and […]
