Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi on Friday disclosed that he’ll search authorized redress towards the Supreme Courtroom on the East African Courtroom of Justice in Arusha, Tanzania.Â
Ahmednasir might be transferring to the Tanzania-based court docket to enchantment the Supreme Courtroom’s resolution barring him from ever showing earlier than it.
“I’ve instructed my attorneys to file a petition within the East African Courtroom of Justice at Arusha to hunt authorized redress towards Koome,” Ahmednasir famous.
“I cannot waste time going to Koome’s courts,” the barrister also called the Grand Mullah added.Â
A collage of Chief Justice Martha Koome (proper) and Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi (proper)
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Ahmednasir who accused the apex court docket of corruption, nonetheless, didn’t disclose the timeline inside which he’ll file his petition.
Nonetheless, he insisted that the Supreme Courtroom failed to present him an viewers to specific his opposition to the matter.
“Second time in my 30 years of regulation profession that the courts refused me viewers for calling for the removing of some judges from the courts,” Ahmednasir claimed.
“The primary time was in 2,000 after I was ejected from the court docket and informed to not come again as a result of I offered a paper at an annual convention calling for the reconstitution of the Excessive Courtroom and the Courtroom of Enchantment afresh.”
In line with Ahmednasir, no different lawyer within the historical past of Kenya has ever been denied an viewers for calling out corrupt and incompetent judges. The court docket thus set a precedent that he warned was opposite to the Structure.Â
On Thursday, January 18, theSupreme Courtroom banned the famend lawyerover what it termed as a constant, distasteful behavior of issuing controversial remarks towards it and its judges on numerous media platforms together with social media and broadcasts.
The Apex court docket in a two-page letter addressed to the senior counsel, additionally barred workers of the lawyer’s regulation agency from submitting circumstances earlier than it.
“Given the foregoing, it’s the resolution of this Courtroom, that henceforth and from the date of this Communication, you shall don’t have any viewers earlier than the Courtroom, both by your self, by means of an worker of your regulation agency, or some other particular person,” Letizia Muthoni Wachira, the Registrar of the Supreme Courtroom famous in an announcement.
Hon. Girl Justice Njoki Ndung’u and Hon Justice William Ouko listening to petitions on the Supreme Courtroom on August 31, 2022
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