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Nairobi, Wednesday August 6^th, KNA By Albert Bwana

Narok Mp Reinstated by the Supreme Court

 

The Narok East Member Parliament Ken Aramat  Kilokwe has been reinstated today by the Supreme Court ruling, in a petition filed from his challenger Haron Lempaka.

 

The verdict was given by a three bench judges consisting of Philip Tunei, Ibrahim Mohammed and Jacton Ojwang . The bench ruled that the court of appeal had no mandate to order a recount of votes to be done in a lower court.

 

The court was told that during the election Aramat garnered 5615 against Lempaka who scored 5061 votes during the 4^thmarch 2013 general elections.

 

Judge Tunei said that the  Supreme Court declared that the petitioner was out of time bound and owing to the fact that he never argued that there was any kind of malpractice in the election process.

 

The hearing of the case started at the Nakuru High Court and it proceeded to the Supreme Court.  

 

            Speaking to the media after the ruling, Aramat told his opponents to accept the verdict, join him to work together to bring development to Narok East.

 

“It has been a long journey for Narok East constituents who supported me and I urge those who lost the petition to join me and we will work together to develop our constituency,” said Aramat.

 

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