Voters move to court to block Waititu from contesting Kabete by-election

Kenya: Two voters have filed a petition at the High Court to have former Embakasi MP Ferdinand Waititu barred from contesting the Kabete Parliamentary seat.

Geoffrey Mwaki Kimathi and Joseph Njuguna want the court to declare that the new Jubilee Alliance Party (JAB) should conduct a test on Waititu's integrity, before officially nominating him as their flag bearer.

In the petition filed under a certificate of urgency Tuesday, they also asked the court to declare that the Independent Electoral and boundaries Commission (IEBC) should not give him a clearance certificate before the hearing and determination of the case.

The two, who claimed they are registered to vote in Kabete, want the court to pronounce that Waititu had been declared unfit to hold a public office hence he should not vie for Kabete parliamentary seat.

Waititu, who has shifted political base from Embakasi, was elected on Saturday to contest for the Kabete MP seat on JAP ticket.