It is a battle of wits at the supreme court as the proponents of the Building Bridges Initiative seek to resuscitate the constitutional review process. It will be a three day marathon hearing from Tuesday to Thursday.
The Attorney General election, President Uhuru Kenyatta, ODM leader Raila Odinga and the electoral commission IEBC will try to overturn the court of appeal decision that declared BBI unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court has locked Tuesday to Thursday as the hearing days for BBI appeal. All parties in the case hace been limited to only two lawyers to submit their case within 45 minutes.
Odinga and the BBI Secretariat want the Supreme court to find that there was adequate participation in the constitution review processand that the BBI Secretariat as the initiator of the constitutional change as opposed to the court of appe finding that the President kick-started the exersise. All eyes are on supreme cpurt decision.
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