The Supreme court judges on Thursday asked lawyers representing the Azimio One Kenya Alliance very tough questions that sent them to the drawing board.
The questions which drew mixed reactions were directed at the main petitioner Raila Odinga’s lawyers together with the other supporting petitions.
While others thought the questions were tough, there are those who argued that the questions were a blessing in disguise for the Azimio supporters since it would give their lawyers more time to brainstorm and come back with the best answers. Besides, it would help the petitioners build and strengthen their case.
Unlike in 2017 where judges asked the lawyers questions to answer on the spot during the hearing, the judges on Wednesday ordered the lawyers to answer the same on Thursday when they resume.
Below were some of those questions that the Supreme court judges asked Azimio lawyers:
🔥”If this commission was so dysfunctional, that everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong , how do we effect your relief that we announce another winner ?” ~Philomena Mwilu.
🔥”We saw your clients in public reading out results until the eleventh hour, what evidence do we have that this was an afterthought?” Justice Isaac Lenaola
🔥”Form 34As are written in handwriting (different people’s handwriting), how can you explain then how a form can be changed?” Justice Njoki Ndung’u
🔥”Can the hackers change the physical Forms 34A being delivered by road to Bomas?” Justice Smoking Wanjala
🔥”IEBC chairperson should be a person qualified to hold the office of judge of the Supreme Court. If per chance we were to order removal of Chebukati,would the commission still be intact with the remaining 6 commissioners without a chair of those qualifications?” Justice Lenaola
🔥”Is this chairperson that we are dealing with such a terror that nobody can face him?” Smoking Wanjala
🔥”Why didn’t commissioners protest that they were being assigned duties that were not within their mandate?” Justice Smoking Wanjala
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