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Supreme Court Judges Set To Retreat For Judgement Writing

The Supreme Court is  today hearing final submissions from parties in the presidential petition before retreating for judgement writing.

The judges are are set to deliver judgement on Monday, September 5, 2022.

Today lawyers representing petitioners and respondents will be responding to  final questions  posed by judges.

The court will also allow petitioners time for rejoinders and submissions on the scrutiny  report.

Raila Odinga and Martha Karua,the main petitioners  will have  an hour to make their oral submissions to the questions with the other petitions allocated 30 and 15 minutes each.

Raila  and Karua have will get 30 minutes for submissions on the scrutiny report

Youth Advocacy Africa and Peter Kirika 20 minutes, Khelef Khalifa and other petitioners 10 minutes.

President-elect William Ruto and his deputy Rigathi Gachagua’s lawyers will have 30 minutes

IEBC lawyers representing the four commissioners and those representing Chebukati will have 30 minutes to share.

Lawyers representing Raila Odinga and Martha Karua have asked the court to nullify the August  9 presidential election results while those representing President-Elect William Ruto want the court to throw out the petition.

If the Supreme court agrees to nullify  the August  9 elections, IEBC will have 60 days to organize  a new presidential election as per the law.

Also Read:IEBC Defends 2022 General Election Outcome

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