NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 18 — City lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi has responded to the Supreme Court decision to ban him from the apex court terming it as “a badge of honour”.
Abdullahi, popularly known as Grand Mullah, asserted his long-held argument that the top court and its judges are “corrupt”.
“Isn’t it a badge of honour for the most corrupt court in Kenya to refuse me and my law firm an audience,” he remarked.
The Supreme Court Registrar Muthoni Wachira relayed the decision in a letter on Thursday citing instruction by the seven justices of the court.
“In view of the foregoing, it is the decision of this Court, that henceforth and from the date of this Communication, you shall have no audience before the Court, either by yourself, through an employee of your law firm, or any other person holding brief for you, or acting pursuant to your instructions,” the Registrar stated.
Audience untenable
Wachira termed Abdullahi’s appearance at the country’s top court as untenable.
“Much as this decision is bound to affect those who may have instructed you to represent them before the Court, it is untenable that you would seek justice in the very institution and before the very Judges, whose reputation and integrity you never tire in assaulting,” she said.
Abdullahi has on numerous occasions accused Justices of the Supreme Court of corruption, and singled out Chief Justice Martha Koome as an enabler of graft.
In the lead up to a judges colloquium in 2023, he accused Koome of engineering the revocation of his invitation to the forum owing to his stance.
He recently hailed the removal of disgraced High Court judge Said Chitembwe terming it as a rare departure from the alleged culture of institutionalised corruption.
Reacting to the Supreme Court decision on December 28 confirming a tribunal finding of Chitembwe’s ouster, said Chitembwe was just “unlucky”.
“When you look at Said Chitembwe and what he was accused of, and you have a look at out courts today you will realize that Chitembwe was just unlucky. There are people who do worse and nobody touches them,” Abdullahi said.
In its Judgement confirming Chitembwe’s removal, the Supreme Court stated that there is no obligation in removal proceedings to prove every allegation facing Justice Chitembwe as the Tribunal found proof in all the six allegations levelled against him.
