The presidential petition ruling is scheduled for Monday September 5 at 12.00 pm according to a notice from the Supreme court.
The judgment will be delivered at the Milimani law courts at the above mentioned by the 7-bench judges who have been hearing the case for three days last week.
The 7-bench judge comprises Chief Justice Martha Koome, who is the president of the Supreme court, her deputy Philomena Mwilu, Smokin Wanjala, Mohamed Ibrahim, Isaac Lenaola, William Ouko and Njoki Ndung’u.
“Take notice, judgment in this petition will be delivered at 12.00pm at the Supreme court of Kenya Milimani law courts,” part of the notice read.
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— The Judiciary Kenya (@Kenyajudiciary) September 5, 2022
The presidential petitions filed initially were 8, but the Supreme court consolidated them into 7 and the respondents were 11 in total including William Ruto, IEBC, Wafula Chebukati and IEBC commissioners.
The judges identified 9 issues for determination. The issues include;
Whether the technology deployed by IEBC deployed by IEBC for the conduct of the 2022 General Election met the standards of integrity, verifiability, security and transparency to guarantee accurate and verifiable results.
Whether there was interference in the uploading and transmission of Forms 34A from polling station to IEBC public portal.
Whether there was a difference between Forms 34A uploaded on IEBC public portal and Forms34 A received at the national tallying Center and Forms 34 A issued to the agents at polling stations.
Whether the postponement of Gubernatorial Elections in Kakamega and Mombasa Counties, Parliamentary elections in Kitui Rural, Kacheliba Rongai and Pokot South Constituencies and electoral wards in Nyaki West in North Imenti Constituency and Kwa Njenga in Embakasi South Constituency resulted in voter suppression to the detriment petitioners( Raila Odinga and Martha Karua) in petition number E005 of 2022.
Whether there were discrepancies between votes casts for presidential candidates and other elective positions, if IEBC carried out verification tallying and declaration of results in accordance with the provisions of Article 138 (3c) and Article 138 (10) of the Constitution and whether Ruto, the declared president-elect attained 50 per cent +1 in accordance with Article 138 (4) of the Constitution.
The final issue is whether there were irregularities of such magnitude as to affect the final results of the presidential election.
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