Supreme Court docket Completely Bans SC Ahmednasir Abdullahi & His Regulation Agency

Senior Counsel Ahemdnasir Abdullahi has responded to the Supreme Court docket’s resolution to bar him, his legislation agency – Ahmednasir Abdullahi Advocates LLP – and every other consultant from showing earlier than the apex court docket.Â

Through his social media pages, Ahmednasir wrote “Isn’t it a badge of honour for essentially the most corrupt court docket in Kenya to refuse me and my legislation agency an viewers?”

Ahmednasir was but to difficulty every other response which can be argued as ‘given by means of different channels of communication’.

Within the press launch despatched toKenyans.co.keby the Supreme Court docket and likewise posted on the SC’s social media pages, seven judges of the court docket unanimously agreed to bar Ahmednasir and his legislation agency from showing earlier than it.Â

The Apex Court docket, on Thursday, accused the lawyer of “relentlessly and unabashedly conducting a marketing campaign within the broadcast, print and social media aimed toward scandalizing, ridiculing and out rightly denigrating the Court docket.”Â

“Given the foregoing, it’s the resolution of this Court docket, that henceforth and from the date of this Communication, you shall don’t have any viewers earlier than the Court docket, both by your self, by means of an worker of your legislation agency, or every other individual,” learn a part of the assertion drafted by Letizia Muthoni Wachira, the Registrar of the Supreme Court docket.Â

Wachira said that she was authorised by the total seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court docket of Kenya to deal with SC Ahmednasir.Â

“By way of social media posts, media interviews, and write-ups, you’ve got accused the Court docket both in its constitutive persona, or particular person membership, of acts of corruption, incompetence, and outright bribery. This, you’ve got performed with reckless abandon, paying scant regard to the reputations of those that tirelessly serve on the Court docket in accordance with their Oath of Workplace.

“However the harm to the repute of the Court docket, and the Judges who’ve served thereon over time, each in its company and particular person posture and to render justice to these you characterize, the Court docket has exercised restraint by not deploying the punitive instruments accessible to it in opposition to you,” the registrar said.Â

Chief Justice Martha Koome, her deputy Philomena Mwilu, and Justices Mohamed Khadhar Ibrahim, Dr. Smokin Wanjala, Justice Njoki Susanna Ndung’u, Isaac Lenaola, and William Ouko argued that they warned the SC that such conduct would sooner or later, not go unpunished.

Nonetheless, SC Ahmednasir was alleged to have endured in attacking the management and membership of the Supreme Court docket regardless of the warning.Â

“A lot as this resolution is sure to have an effect on those that could have instructed you to characterize them earlier than the Court docket, it’s untenable that you’d search justice within the very establishment and earlier than the very Judges, whose repute and integrity you by no means tire in assaulting,” Wachira, the Registrar of the Supreme Court docket famous.Â

The Supreme Court docket, within the communique despatched to the lawyer, compiled among the statements he was accused of producing in opposition to the Court docket.

It additional warned that the complication of the statements would function proof in opposition to Ahmednasir ought to anybody query the court docket’s judgement.Â