Amos Khaemba, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.
Nairobi – President William Ruto’s lawyers have dropped out of the ongoing impeachment case filed by Rigathi Gachagua.
On Thursday, October 24, lawyer Kamotho Njenga told the three-judge bench that he would no longer represent Ruto, the sixth respondent in the matter.
Kamotho argued that, under the law, the president is immune from personal legal proceedings while in office.
He cited a past Supreme Court ruling, which stated that the sitting president cannot be subject to civil proceedings.
Kamotho disclosed that they have filed a notice to cease acting for the sixth respondent who will remain unrepresented in the ongoing impeachment case.
“We shall no longer be acting for the sixth respondent of this matter and to that effect, we have filed a notice to cease action on account of the Supreme Court decision, that determined that the President cannot be subject to civil proceedings.
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“So in that regard, we will not be able to act contrary to an express court order and we have therefore filed a notice to cease acting and we ask the court to deem that to be a sufficient notice that the person named as the sixth person is now not represented in these proceedings,” Kamotho stated.
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Source: TUKO.co.ke
