05/07/2021
Appeal hearing: Court to deliver ruling next month
The Court of Appeal will deliver its judgement on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) appeal case on August 20, 2021.
Appellate court President Daniel Musinga said the seven-judge-bench hearing the case had made careful deliberations as the four-day hearing comes to a close.
“We deliberated on this date, looking at the nature of the matter and volumes before us,” Justice Musinga said.
Since Tuesday, court has been hearing submissions by proponents and opponents in the case, who are seeking to have High Court’s judgement that nullified the BBI overturned or upheld.
There were nine issues at the heart of the hearing, among them public participation, IEBC quorum and role of BBI promoters and initiators. For four days, top legal minds, old and new, took turns to defend their arguments, treating Kenyans to a legal face-off.