Former Kiambu governor Ferdinand Waititu has gone to the Milimani law court to show his support to the impeached deputy president Rigathi Gachagua this afternoon.
Earlier today the High Court was forced to adjourn after the legal teams representing the impeached deputy president and other parties went at each other forcing the judges in the case to announce temporary adjournment.
Something that followed a heated debate and legal exchange between impeached DP Rigathi Gachagua’s team and the court regarding the composition of the three-judge bench hearing the case.
According to Gachagua’s team, the bench hearing the case was unlawfully constituted and therefore they wanted clarity on the process behind its composition.
The three bench judges ruled that the matter and questions raised by Gachagua’s team had heavy implications and thus the court would not proceed with the confusion.
The presiding judge, Ogola directed Gachagua’s lawyers to file a different petition in regards to their demands, after which the session would resume at 2 pm for a ruling to be made.
”This court has the control of the proceedings and this is a very weighty matter, it concerns the Deputy President of this country, I will not allow everybody to speak because if everybody is going to speak, we are going to head in post, on the validity of this bench to sit. This is the direction we are making, the application challenging the validity of this court to sit must be filed within one hour and responded to within one hour. We will come to listen to that application.’’
President Ruto through his lawyer has also filed a petition challenging the High Court’s power to hear Gachagua’s petition and according to him the petition should be handled by the Supreme Court.
