City lawyer moves to court to stop LSK elections after he is locked out

City lawyer moves to court to stop LSK elections after he is locked out

Lawyer Shadrack Wambui during a past address outside court premises. PHOTO | COURTESY

A Nairobi lawyer has moved to court seeking to have the forthcoming Law Society of Kenya (LSK) elections stopped pending the hearing of a case he has filed.

Lawyer Shadrack Wambui says the LSK board’s decision to lock him out of the elections was unlawful.

Wambui says that unless the court issues a temporary order stopping the elections or the preparation of the elections of the Nairobi Representative 2024-2026, his case would be nugatory.

He says that the decision to lock him out because of one of his nominees not being a practicing lawyer in Nairobi is invalid, claiming that lawyer Justus Munyithya has an office at AGIP House.

In his appeal, Wambui says that the board erred in its decision to dismiss his complaint which locks him out of the race.

“Consequently, the board relied on irrelevant considerations as at the time it was making its impugned decision on the 18th January 2024, it was well aware that the Applicant’s nominee had on the 17th January 2024 transferred his voting centre from Mombasa to Nairobi and was therefore qualified to be elected to the office to which the nomination relates,” argues Wambui.

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