{"id":917708,"date":"2022-01-19T16:09:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/fireworks-in-court-as-young-lawyer-badly-destroys-uhuru\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:09:39","slug":"fireworks-in-court-as-young-lawyer-badly-destroys-uhuru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/fireworks-in-court-as-young-lawyer-badly-destroys-uhuru\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks in Court As Young Lawyer Badly Destroys Uhuru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 0.16rem;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/c09f3674bce54f498c69267cde6604a5\"\/>Photo Courtesy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The last few months have not been the best for President Uhuru Kenyatta after witnessing his BBI experiment shot down both at the High Court and court of appeal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The case is currently at the Supreme Court where top lawyers have been battling out since yesterday. Earlier today <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tv47ke\/status\/1483739796019326986?t=ZdfbPQDC6j0FRjqwqm-3ug&amp;s=19\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">young lawyer<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"> Topua Lesinko left the court in stitches after he labeled the President a crying baby who wants to amend the Constitution for his own political benefits.\u00a0<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/853f843ce3fb4f14a1b23f58cb1affc6\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">&#8220;The President cannot promote the Constitution and at the same time assent. He has a social contract for five years, he is a duty bearer and cannot have room to cry like a baby saying that he wants to amend the Constitution.&#8221;- <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tv47ke\/status\/1483739796019326986?t=ZdfbPQDC6j0FRjqwqm-3ug&amp;s=19\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Topua Lesinko<\/a> said<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">His comments were backed by another young lawyer Marara Omoke who noted that the BBI bill did not undergo enough public participation.\u00a0<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/0e2440430f3d4578a064bbe1ebbd61e3\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">&#8220;The promoters of the BBI went around the country collecting views in three and five-star hotels where everyday Kenyans could not access to give their views.&#8221; Murara Omoke said.\u00a0<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3fb9e3f283e24cb093039c8729e6b188\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Meanwhile, share with us your thoughts on the matter kindly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: lemmymbelle (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBBI<br \/>\nMarara Omoke<br \/>\nMurara Omoke<br \/>\nSupreme Court<br \/>\nUhuru<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Courtesy.\u00a0 The last few months have not been the best for President Uhuru Kenyatta after witnessing his BBI experiment shot down both at the High Court and court of appeal.\u00a0 The case is currently at the Supreme Court where top lawyers have been battling out since yesterday. Earlier today young lawyer Topua Lesinko left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}