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Coronavirus: Omtatah sues State over forced quarantine
A view of the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) in Meru County, where 57 people were forced to quarantine on April 22, 2020 for breaking rules to curb the spread of the coronavirus. PHOTO | DAVID MUCHUI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- Mr Omtatah argues that Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe exceeded his powers to make regulations under the Public Health Act by purporting to create criminal offenses and penalties as this is Parliament’s role.
- In his suit against the Health CS and the Attorney-General, he further accuses the government of failing to define the disease in the disputed rules yet it is new.
Activist Okiya Omtatah has filed a law suit challenging the manner in which some of the government's measures against the coronavirus pandemic were formulated and are being implemented.
Mr Omtatah is specifically challenging sections of the Public Health Act, namely the Prevention, control and suppression of Covid19 rules 2020, the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Order, 2020 and the Covid-19 Restriction of Movement of Persons and Related Measures Rules, 2020.
