{"id":450487,"date":"2011-06-29T21:29:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/29\/court-halts-odm-party-elections\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T21:29:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:29:41","slug":"court-halts-odm-party-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/court-halts-odm-party-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Halts ODM Party Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"39.8026281209\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/nation180.jpg\" alt=\"The Nation (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The Nation (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Ogemba<\/p>\n<p>29 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 The High Court has stopped the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party elections scheduled to start on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Lady Justice Jeanne Gacheche issued the orders after four members of the party filed an application under certificate of urgency seeking to bar politicians and State officers from contesting or holding any party position pending the hearing and determination of the petition.<\/p>\n<p>However, ODM maintained the elections would go on as scheduled. Party secretary general Anyang&#8217; Nyong&#8217;o said he had not been served with the court orders.<\/p>\n<p>The elections, he said, would be conducted all over the country starting Friday to Tuesday, July 5.<\/p>\n<p>The orders restrained the registrar of political parties from accepting returns of elections from any political party or registering their party officials unless the elections are in compliance with the provisions of Article 77 (2) of the Constitution and section 15 of the Political Parties Act.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Gacheche also ordered the petitioners to deposit Sh1.5 million within three days as security that in the event they lose the application, the money will be used to compensate ODM for the preparations they had done for the elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Japheth Kiio, Mr Julius Gaya, Mr Vincent Ouma and Mr Jeremiah Ambassa argued in their petition that Article 77 (2) of the Constitution imposes a restriction on the activities of State officers by stating that &#8220;any appointed State officer shall not hold office in a political party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They cited Article 260 which defines State officers to include the offices of the President, deputy president, members of Parliament, members of county assembly, cabinet secretaries or an office established and designed as a State office by national legislation.<\/p>\n<p>They said the registrar of political parties, the Commission on the Implementation of the Constitution and the Attorney General have been giving contradictory interpretation of Article 77 (2) of the Constitution which threatened to lead to serious breach of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106291457.html\" title=\"Court Halts ODM Party Elections\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Court Halts ODM Party Elections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Paul Ogemba 29 June 2011 Nairobi \u2014 The High Court has stopped the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party elections scheduled to start on Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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