President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga have been taken to court over their March 9 handshake deal.
Researcher Moraa Gesicho moved to court on Tuesday seeking to have the handshake that created the Building Bridges to a Better Kenya initiative declared invalid within seven days.
"The Constitution does not allow the President to seek assistance from the leader of the Opposition in the governance of the country.
"The only people mandated to assist him in governance are the Deputy President and Cabinet Secretaries," she argued.
Ms Gesicho further stated that the Building Bridges to Unity Advisory task force created by the two leaders is secretly working on changing the Constitution.
"President Kenyatta and Raila are using the task force to establish a government not recognised by the Constitution. It is the reason why the task force must be stopped before it makes recommendations not supported by the public," Gesicho stated.
The petitioner further told the court that the team co-chaired by Senators Amos Wako (Busia) and Yusuf Haji (Garissa) had no legal mandate to change the Constitution.
"President Kenyatta's and Raila's brazen violation of the Constitution by using their personal interests rather than the people's interests must not be allowed to continue.
"Their proposal for the task force is an invitation to anarchy since it undermines the rule of law," Gesicho told the court.
The researcher particularly blamed President Kenyatta for failing to sufficiently inform the public about the task force adding that the manner in which he made the announcement was disrespectful to citizens of the country.
She insisted that the task force remained unlawful because President Kenyatta did not affix his official seal and signature to any written document to create it.
"In view of the fact that Uhuru and Raila had already evaluated challenges facing the nation in their joint communique after the handshake, there was no justification to establish the task force to identify issues affecting the country, which the two leaders had already done," she pointed out.
