Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah on Thursday, April 24, announced the withdrawal of petition 531 of 2015 touching on Kenya's odious debt situation.
In the petition that has been in the corridors of the courts for nearly a decade now, both President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and then Deputy President William Ruto were named as the 1st and 2nd respondents, respectively. Through a press briefing, the vocal activist revealed the new development, citing too much time being wasted on technicalities, but still maintained the battle was far from over. "After consultations and given the technical objections raised by the court, it has become untenable to proceed with this petition in the manner that it was.
So we have withdrawn it tactically to avoid the cascading disaster that was before us," Omtatah posited.
Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah speaking on July 11, 2023 Photo Okiya Omtatah "However, we are going to refile the same immediately so that we can avoid all those technicalities that were being placed in our way like minefields," he added.
