Orengo Prepared a Substandard Petition for Raila – Ruto’s Lawyer

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Monday, September 5, 2022 –Renowned lawyer Fred Ngatia has taken a swipe at his colleague, Senior Counsel James Orengo, for drafting a substandard Supreme Court Presidential election petition for Raila Odinga.

Speaking to the media just moments after winning the case of his client William Ruto, Ngatia mentioned that Orengo and his team prepared a fiction story book instead of addressing the real issue in contestation.

He wondered how more than 30 paid up lawyers would sit down and spend their one week making imaginary claims that cannot stand the test of time.

“People don’t just go with allegations to court. It is one thing to have allegations in court, you know, don’t over dramatize things. Don’t draft an election petition like you are doing a book of science fiction.

“Do it like a lawyer, plead what you know it is right and it is just and it is well- founded in law. That should be one of the lessons that this contest has shown,” he said.

Ngatia who has, not once represented Uhuru and Ruto in court, went ahead to state that whatever description CJ Martha Koome used to describe the petition was right because that is what it was.

“There were many allegations but most of them were referred to as red-headed. It is not a very easy thing to say but it is what it is, it is red-headed,” stated Ngatia.

On his part, James Orengo and his colleague Philip Murgor read mischief in the whole ruling wondering how Koome ended up rubbishing all their applications and even going to the degree of referring to it as just ‘hot air’.

The Supreme Court today validated William Ruto’s victory and is set to be sworn into office on September 13.

Raila and Karua have accepted but disagreed with the outcome