A case has been filed against Raila Odinga, former president Uhuru Kenyatta, and Azimio over anti-government protests.
Through lawyer Adrian Kamotho, petitioner Martin Gitau wants the court to issue orders stopping the respondents from demonstrating.
They also want the court to restrain the political parties from releasing or disbursing any share or further allocation of the Political Parties Fund to the parties.
“Pending the hearing and determination of the Application and Petition herein inter partes the Honourable Court be pleased to issue a temporary order restraining the Respondents, their agents, servants, supporters and/or any person whatsoever from holding violent protests, barricading roads, destroying critical infrastructure, disrupting the lives of non-demonstrators or in any manner using the subsisting democratic space to destroy property, intimidate disinterested persons or to loot business premises,” reads court papers
The petitioner claims that due to the protests orchestrated by the respondents, businesses in all the affected areas were in a standstill, transport system extremely paralyzed, emergency services interrupted in a fashion that negatively impacts the struggling economy.
