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Court allows IEBC to gazette Cleophas Malala to vie for governor

Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

The High Court in Kakamega has lifted orders barring the electoral agency from gazetting Senator Cleophas Malala to contest for governorship.

Justice Patrick Otieno said the petition by two voters questioning the senator's academic papers and seeking to have him disqualified from the race will continue on the sidelines of his gazettement by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).

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