Seven Judges Behind BBI Ruling Today

August 20, 2021

Friday, August 20, 2021 -Seven-judge bench is expected to deliver the much awaited Building Bridges Initiative ruling today by afternoon.

This is after Lawyer Jams Orengo and Otiende Amollo recently moved to the Appellate Court to resuscitate the BBI draft bill which had been reduced to an illegality by the High Court.

Focus now today shifts to the judges who need to finally tell the country what next with or without the BBI even as politicians continue expecting the ruling to favouir their side. Already former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said if the draft bill will be thwarted today(Friday),he will not move to the Supreme Court but instead focus his energy on 2022 plans.

Lawyers who will be at the center of this ruling will be led by Justice Daniel Musinga who is the current president of the Court of Appeal. Members always describe him as a soft spoken but firm legal mind who has been in this industry for quite sometime now.

Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga(left) with President Uhuru Kenya dip[lay copies of the BBI Report in a past event.

Others are Rosylene Nambuye, Hannah Okwengu, Patrick Kiage, Gatembu Kairu, Fatuma Sichal, Francis Tuiyott.

Tuiyott was recently appointed by the president to be part of the Court of Appeal team. He has once served in the committee that was investigating the row between DPP Noordin Haji and DCJ Philomena Mwilu.

The seven-judge bench has been on a 50 -day retreat writing their much anticipated ruling that will break or make the BBI.