Mombasa High Court. Photo: © 2020 Ernest Cornel.
by Ernest Cornel | Apr 29, 2020 | Litigation , News |
A suit, which compels the national and county governments to pay coronavirus quarantine cost, “raises novel issues of serious public concern”, a judge has said. But Mombasa High Court judge Erick Ogola did not grant petitioner’s orders in his ruling. MUHURI wants the...
MUHURI Rapid Response Officer Francis Auma and chairman Khelef Khalifa at Mombasa High Court after filing a petition to scrap quarantine cost. Photo: © 2020 Ernest Cornel.
by Ernest Cornel | Apr 23, 2020 | Litigation , News |
MUHURI on April 23, 2020, sued to exempt those quarantining in government facilities from paying. Instead, MUHURI wants national and county governments to foot the bill in the context of Covid-19 disease. “Designated government health facilities… are forcing such...
Judge John Mativo at Milimani Law Courts on March 11, 2020. Photo © 2020 Ernest Cornel.
by Ernest Cornel | Mar 11, 2020 | Litigation , News |
President Uhuru Kenyatta breached the law when he used public resources, including funds, to start a popular initiative for amending the Constitution, a court has heard. This even as justice John Mativo, in a span of two months, becomes the second judge, after his...
Omar Said Omar. The court sentenced him to 25 years in prison for sodomizing his stepson. Photo © 2020 Ernest Cornel/Muhuri.
by Ernest Cornel | Feb 5, 2020 | Litigation , News |
A Malindi imam is still guilty of sodomizing his stepson, High Court judge Reuben Nyakundi has said, but reduced his life sentence to 25 years. Nyakundi said Omar Said Omar has left the victim, 12, with a permanent scar, and betrayed the trust and love the child had...
Huduma Namba: The three judges ruled it is unconstitutional for the government to collect DNA and GPS. Photo: Courtesy
by Ernest Cornel | Feb 1, 2020 | Litigation , News |
The court has halted the issuance of Huduma Namba until the government puts a comprehensive legal framework to address data privacy and the discriminatory nature of the system. Judges Pauline Nyamweya, Mumbi Ngugi, and Weldon Korir on January 30, 2020, said regulatory...
Omar Said Omar before Malindi High Court Judge Reuben Nyakundi on January 29, 2020. Photo © 2020 Ernest Cornel/Muhuri.
by Ernest Cornel | Jan 30, 2020 | Litigation , News |
A wife says her spiritual spouse “deserves to rot in jail because he sodomized her son”. Fatma* says Omar Said Omar, an imam convicted for life imprisonment, betrayed their six-year marriage when he sexually assaulted her only child. Fatma has no child with Omar, 38,...