Narc Kenya leader Martha Karua is considering filing the 2022 presidential election suit at the East African Court of Justice to seek an alternative opinion on the verdict rendered by the Supreme Court.
Speaking in Kirinyaga county yesterday, Karua said that it was impossible that the Supreme Court declared Kenya Kwanza leader, William Ruto as president-elect despite numbers not adding up.
“When a cooking stick breaks, it doesn’t mean the cooking ends. I’m fully aware that after the Supreme Court judgment, there’s no any other superior court that can resolve our dispute on the presidential election. However, we can seek another respected court’s opinion,” she said.
Karua said she was aware the East African Court of Justice’s decision won’t be binding, or have the ability to change Kenya’s presidency, but would give her the closure she needs.
This not being the first time she filed a suit at the East African Court, she was sure that the court’s opinion would grant them justice as it won’t be about who should occupy the president’s seat but whether justice was served.
According to Karua, she challenged Anne Waiguru’s election as Kirinyaga governor in 2017, and that the East African Court granted her the closure that she needed.
She said that although she could not get the gubernatorial seat, Kenya’s Judiciary had been exposed, and the truth of the matter revealed.
Later in December 2020, the East African Court of Justice awarded her Sh2.8 million ($25,000) for a Supreme Court decision which infringed on her rights to a fair hearing and trial.
She later went on and declared that it is her decision as an individual to take the matter to the East African Court and not Azimio One Kenya alliance.
“This isn’t Azimio la Umoja’s resolution, but mine as Martha Karua, an aggrieved Kenyan. I am entitled to that as an individual. It is something I’m considering. For now, I’ll take a break. We have to wait for the 21 days to elapse so that the Supreme Court of Kenya can share its detailed judgment on our petition. I can’t wait to know exactly why they threw out our case,” she said.
She stated that she will be taking a political break as she waits for the Supreme Court to give a detailed judgment on why they upheld Ruto’s win.
“We did not agree with the judges’ verdict, but we respect it. Let the Supreme Court judges tell us why they found our case weak, and I’ll also tell the East African Court of Justice why we think our case was strong,” she added.
The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Martha Koome, dismissed Raila’s petition that challenged Ruto’s victory due to lack of evidence and forgery of documents.