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Court declines to freeze Ruto's protests victims compensation panel

President William Ruto addresses residents after the launch of the Sogoo-Melelo-Ololung’a Road on the second day of his tour of Narok County, May 7, 2025. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

The High Court in Nairobi has declined to stop the panel appointed by President William Ruto to look into compensation of persons who are victims of protests.

Justice Lawrence Mugambi instead ordered lawyer Suyianka Lempaa to serve the court papers on the President, the Attorney General, the Interior Cabinet Secretary, the Treasury Cabinet Secretary, and Prof. Makau Mutua, the constitutional affairs advisor to the President.

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