• Ahmednasir also said that God willing, he will only appear before the Supreme Court when new Judges will have constituted the Supreme Court bench.
• The apex court on Thursday last week barred Ahmednasir and employees of his law firm from filing cases before it over what it termed as incessant and unsubstantiated attacks.
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Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi now says that he will never appear before the Supreme Court of Kenya as long as Chief Justice Martha Koome and her deputy Philomena Mwilu remain judges of Kenya's apex court.
He said this also applies if Justices Smokin Wanjala and Njoki Ndung'u remain at the Supreme Court.
The lawyer insisted that this is his way of making peace with the country's top court's decision to bar him and his associates from appearing before it.
Ahmednasir also said that God willing, he will only appear before the Supreme Court when new judges will have constituted the Supreme Court bench.
"Now that Martha Koome today read the order of the Court where 6 judges recused themselves from the case I was to argue and further baring me from the court as long as the members of the Court...I'm ready to make peace with the court as follows:
"1. I will not take a brief or appear before the Supreme Court as long as CJ Koome, DCJ Mwilu, Smokin Wanja and Njoki are judges of the Supreme Court Kenya. 2. I will come back to the Court (InshaAllah) if and when Justices Ibrahim, Lenaola, Ouko and other new members constitute a majority in the Supreme Court," Ahmednasir said on X.
His remarks come after the Supreme Court bench on Tuesday declined to hear a case in which the Senior counsel has been defending an Eldoret family fighting over a Sh2 billion land with the family of former President Daniel Moi.
The apex court on Thursday last week barred Ahmednasir and employees of his law firm from filing cases before it over what it termed as incessant and unsubstantiated attacks.
The court stated that Ahmednasir could not continue appearing before them in the face of incessant attacks from the lawyer on his media engagements.
The judges said Ahmednasir had through his posts on social media, media interviews and write-ups, accused the court either in its constitutive persona or individual membership, of acts of corruption, incompetence and outright bribery.
"This, you have done with reckless abandon, paying scant regard to the reputations of those who tirelessly serve on the court in accordance with their oath of office," the letter reads.
The judges reminded Ahmednasir of a warning in 2019 when he was cautioned that such conduct would not go unpunished in future.
Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi on Friday last week said he would file a petition at the East African Court of Justice against the Supreme Court.