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Muigai said the orders if not set aside will bring a budgetary crisis to the government.
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Omtatah and 6 others have challenged the act, saying it’s unconstitutional.
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Justice Mugure Thande of the Constitutional Division is set to rule whether she will extend orders suspending the Finance Act pending the hearing and determination of a case filed by Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah.
The ruling has been scheduled for 2 pm.
Two weeks ago, the court suspended the implementation of the Act pending determination of the matter.
But the Treasury CS through lawyer Githu Muigai has asked the court to set aside the orders.
Muigai said the orders if not set aside will bring a budgetary crisis to the government.
Omtatah and 6 others have challenged the act, saying it’s unconstitutional.
They argue that the bill was never passed through Senate for deliberations as is required by law thus the Act is null and void.
However, in an affidavit filed in court by Senate Speaker Amason Kingi, he has asked the court to lift the orders, saying they are against the public interest
He says he consulted with the National Assembly Speaker and resolved that since the bill did not relate to counties then it should just be deliberated by the National Assembly.
In a separate court, the Sh7 million Triton oil scandal facing runaway suspect Yagnesh Devani is to be mentioned today.
In the case, Yagnesh Devani, Mahindra Pathak, Julius Kyalo Kilonzo, Collin Otieno and Triton Petroleum are accused of jointly disposing of 13 million cubic metres of diesel worth Sh32,047,783 without consent of Emirates National Oil Corporation (Singapore).
Others charged are Benedict Mutua, Peter Manono Mecha and Phanuel Silvano.
They are all charged with conspiring to defraud a number of petroleum companies by purporting that Triton had diesel ready for sale at KPC storage in Kipevu.
Devani is yet to be charged. He has been on the run for the past decade.
In May, the court of appeal in the UK dismissed his application seeking asylum there, setting the ground for his extradition to Kenya.
A Limuru court will today rule on the further detention of two senior officials that forced female workers to remove their underwear over a sanitary pad disposed of in the wrong bin.
The cops want them detained for seven more days.
Vivian Oka Mukoko and Rose Opondo were on Friday arraigned in a Limuru court where the police sought to detain them for seven days pending the completion of investigations.
The two were arrested at Brown Cheese Company over allegations that they forced female workers to undress to confirm who was on her menses.
This was after a used sanitary pad was found dumped in a dustbin instead of a sanitary disposal bin.
According to the detectives handling the case, the two ended up forcing a lot of women to undress before them so that they can identify who could be the suspect.