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RIFT VALLEY
Former Nakuru North MP Dickson Kihika Kimani. [Courtesy]
One of the widows of the late Kihika Kimani, a veteran politician, has challenged a decision by the court to replace her with her daughter as an administrator in the estate of the deceased.
Margaret Wambui, the first wife to the late Kihika, faulted High Court judge, Justice Rachel Ngetich s decision of February 14, to replace her as an administrator in the Sh600 million estate as ill-informed because Florence Nduta does not have her interests at heart.
Challenging the decision, Wambui, 90, wants her third-born daughter Erishifa Wanjiru to take over the management of her share in the estate.
THE STANDARD
NATIONAL
Former Chief Justice David Maraga [Courtesy]
Under the 2010 constitution, Kenya had five years to enact laws ensuring no more than two-thirds of members of elective public bodies are of the same gender.
And on Wednesday, the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) argued the August House cannot escape the wrath of the law for its failure.
LSK president Nelson Havi, in his submissions before a five-judge bench, was of the view that Covid-19 cannot stop the country from conducting by-elections once the President sends the MPs home.
“Failure by Parliament to enact two-third gender rule invited a Constitutional penal consequence of dissolution. The significance of this penal consequence was underscored by the Court of Appeal. Covid-19 cannot be a reason why we should not dissolve parliament,” said Havi.
THE STANDARD
POLITICS
Former Chief Justice David Maraga. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
The clamor for gender parity in Parliament ought to have ended in 2015, Parliament told the High Court on Monday.
The two Houses argued that the law on two-third gender rule ought to have lapsed in 2016 as Parliament gave itself one more year.
On the first day of the hearing of cases challenging former Chief Justice David Maraga advice to President Uhuru Kenyatta to dissolve Parliament, the court heard that that the advice is not binding.
Parliament’s lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi asserted that Justice Maraga was wrong for apportioning blame to the current Parliament instead its predecessor, the 11th Parliament.
THE STANDARD
NAIROBI
Parliament has lost a bid to stop a bench appointed by Acting Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu from hearing a case on dissolving the House for failing to enact the two-thirds gender principle.
Justices Lydia Achode, Pauline Nyamweya, George Odunga, James Makau, and Anthony Ndung’u ruled that the DCJ acted within the law when she assigned them the duty to determine the dispute that arose after former Chief Justice David Maraga gave the advisory to dissolve Parliament.
According to the judges, it was hypocritical for both the National Assembly and the Senate to expect Justice Maraga to constitute the bench when it was his advisory to the President that they are challenging.