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Court declines to stop Sh1.2b church construction at State House

The State House Mabati Chapel that will be replaced by the new building. [PCS]

President William Ruto can continue building the Sh1.2 billion church at State House after the court ordered that two cases challenging the construction be heard on 22 September 2025, without issuing orders stopping the same.

This is after Attorney General Dorcas Oduor raised an objection that the constitutional court had no authority to hear a case on land use. According to her lawyer, Emmanuel Bitta, the appropriate forum should have been the Environment and Land Court.

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