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Justice Joel Ngugi during the judgment on eight consolidated petitions challenging the BBI referendum last week. Prof Ngugi was the presiding judge.

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15 grounds for appeal as BBI battle resumes

Monday, May 17, 2021

Promoters of the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020, have listed 15 grounds of appeal against the High Court judgment that scuttled their plans to change Kenya’s supreme law, the Nation has learnt.

A draft memorandum of appeal — one of several expected to be filed in court this week — seeks to poke holes into the High Court bombshell that threw off balance the main proponents of the constitutional changes — President Kenyatta and the Orange Democratic Movement party leader Raila Odinga.