Kenyan court starts looking at petitions against Uhuru Kenyatta’s election victory
Nairobi — On Tuesday, Kenya’s supreme court prepared to review petitions challenging President Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in October’s presidential election, in what may be the last chance for legal scrutiny of the vote. Security was tight outside the courtroom, which has been centre stage for Kenyan politics since it nullified the results of August’s presidential election. That decision led to the re-run election on October 26. The court has not convened since the day before October’s election, when it had been due to deliberate on a last-minute request to delay the vote. But that hearing was cancelled because not enough judges showed up to make a quorum. The judges had demanded more security after the bodyguard of the deputy chief justice was shot the day before the hearing, and said they would refuse to attend hearings without it, a judicial source said. The government turned them down, the source said. The chief justice later denied the report on the security issue and said the po...
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