By Chris Ojow
A petition has been filed at the
Constitutional Court in the Country,
before High Court Judge . Antony Mrima
and waiting for directions, where by,
it seeks to stop the intended Kenyan
Senior Editors retreat to be held on
Thursday 18th of November year 2021 ,
at the Coastal Region allegedly being
organised and funded by the embattled
Kenyan Director of Public Prosecution
(DPP) Noordin Haji.
The same petitioner also filed another
application before the Civil Servants
employer Public Service Commission (
PSC) on grounds that the Country DPP
Haji , cannot organize a retreat for
Kenyan Editors yet he’s facing several
accusations filed by five applicants
seeking for his removal from the office
, on grounds of abuse of office ,
interference with Justice system through
unlawfully Prosecuting innocent Kenyans
by fabricating charges and incompetency.
The Petitioner through his Attorney
Danstan Omari in the documents filed
before High Court and PSC is
questioning the Legality , interests
and the source of Finance the DPP will
be using to host Editors from various
media houses in the Country.
The Petitioner argues in his application
that the Office of the Country DPP has
a Budget allocation by both the National
Assembly , where the house speakers has
been invited as speakers in the retreat
at the Coastal City which in the
application prayers was not budgeted .
Through the Country Constitutional
Lawyer Danstan Omari who has filed
another petition challenging the gag
order issued to DPP preventing the
Country Media houses from publishing the
content in the first and second
Petitions filed before PSC seeking for
the removal of DPP from Office, the
Lawyer in the application stressed that
the DPP efforts to organise a retreat
for Top Country Editors and yet he has
obtained orders to gag them , is a way
to compromising their profession and to
allegedly go slow in publishing several
Petitions filed seeking for his removal
The petitioner in Court documents
reminded the Country DPP that his role
is to argue matters on behalf of the
State in a Court of Law and not to
engage in allegedly enticing media
stakeholders by using tax payers money
allocated to his Office for the
functions of State Prosecution and
entertaining Kenyan Editors is not part
of his mandate enshrined in the new 2010
Constitution in Article 157 and if the
said Article is violated then Article
158 shall be applied to remove the said
State Officer .
Under Certificate of urgency the
Petitioner is humbly urging the High
Court to give interim orders stopping
the invited Senior Editors retreat and
save the tax payers money that is due to
be misused .
Through his Attorney Danstan Omari the
Petitioner reminded Kenyans in one of
his several prayers in the petition that
, Noordin Haji the DPP has been
charging Governors for misuse of public
resources and the same Noordin Haji has
been charging members of Parliament for
budgeting for items that were not
budgeted .
The Petitioner is now questioning if the
DPP budget was allocated for Senior Top
Editors to be lavishly treated through a
retreat in a five Star hotel in the
Coastal Region and why only that region ?
As the Public Service Commission PSC in
their response to a petition filed by
DPP seeking to stop PSC from hearing
allegations filed by Kenyans against his
conduct and incompetency
urged the High Court to dismiss the
application filed by Noordin Haji
and order him to appear before Public
Service Commission to defend himself
Public Service Commission has a
constitutional mandate under article
158(2)and (3) to receive and consider a
petition for removal of the a Country
Director of Public Prosecution.
And in Article 157(1) of the
Constitution , to send the petition to
the President who has power under
Article 158(4) to suspend the DPP from
office and to appoint a tribunal to
inquire into the matter .
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