‘There is a lot of uncertainty’ – Wajir South MP Mohamed Adow says after courtroom rule on National Assembly majority case
Tuesday eleventh February, 2025 09:03 AM|
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Wajir South Member of Parliament (MP) Mohamed Adow has disclosed that they haven’t obtained any official communication from the Azimio la Umoja coalition on the aspect to take a seat on the National Assembly following the courtroom’s order on the bulk case within the National Assembly.
Speaking throughout an interview on Tuesday morning, February 11, 2025, Adow stated that the home has its method of conducting enterprise, including that the Kenya Kwanza coalition would possibly enchantment the ruling.
In addition, the MP acknowledged that the ruling won’t have an effect on how the House votes since it’s a authorities of nationwide unity.
“Not in any respect, the House has its personal method of conducting enterprise. This is a call that may most likely be appealed. The courts have determined that Azimio is the largest coalition. I imagine so, however once more, that is now a authorities of nationwide unity, and there may be not a lot distinction in the way in which we vote. There is lots of uncertainty, so we can be watching how issues go.
“We will see today if we will sit on the other side,” he stated.
Court declaration
Milimani High Court on Friday, February 7, 2025, declared the Azimio coalition as the majority party in the National Assembly.
The judgement was delivered by a three-judge bench stating that Kenya Kwanza just isn’t the bulk social gathering within the National Assembly.
Justices John Chigiti, Lawrence Mugambi, and Jairus Ngaah dominated on the matter.
According to the ruling, the bulk social gathering was decided by Kenyans in the course of the August 2022 common elections.
“It is hereby declared that the question as to which party or coalition parties is the majority of the National Assembly of the 13th Parliament was determined by the sovereign will of the Kenyan voters during the August 9, 2022, general elections,” a part of the ruling learn.
Petitioners
The case was filed in 2023 by 12 people who recognized themselves as registered voters.
They contended that 171 members of the National Assembly had been elected on the tickets of political events that shaped the Azimio coalition, whereas 165 members of the National Assembly had been elected on Kenya Kwanza coalition events’ tickets.
They acknowledged of their courtroom paperwork that going by the outcomes, the Azimio coalition grew to become the bulk social gathering within the National Assembly after the August 9, 2022 General Elections. The Speaker of the National Assembly couldn’t decide the Azimio coalition.
He additionally argued that “in so far as the petition seeks to determine a dispute between political parties and coalitions, the court lacks the power to entertain the dispute,” the reason is that the petitioners had not exhausted all of the accessible dispute decision mechanisms.
The petitioners had been additionally aggrieved that though Moses Wetangula was elected the Speaker of the National Assembly, he held and nonetheless holds the place of the chief of the Ford-Kenya social gathering; that he’s a member of the Kenya Kwanza Forum of social gathering leaders; and that he’s an ex officio member of the coalition parliamentary group of Kenya Kwanza.