After the disputed 2017 general elections, ODM leader Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta were at loggerheads, with each claiming to have won the highly-contested elections.
Odinga and his National Super Alliance (Nasa) coalition partners pulled a surprise on August 16, 2017, when they announced that they would be taking the battle to courts to challenge President Kenyatta's re-election just hours before the deadline to file the petition, on August 19.
On August 28, 2017, the Nasa leaders went to the High Court seeking to compel the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to give them access to servers used in the contested election to prove their case at the Supreme Court.
While Raila and Moses Wetang'ula were allowed into the High Court premises, some of their aides were blocked by a contingent of police officers who seemed hell-bent on not letting them through.
Amongst those who were locked out of the court compound were Wetangula's bodyguard, who was eventually made to sit under a tree and his gun confiscated by senior police officers manning the court's gates.
The reason for his denied entry into the court premises, the guards at the gate stated, was because he was carrying a gun.
In a video by Standard Digital, the visibly agitated Raila tried hard to push for the entry of the bodyguard into the Supreme Court, insisting that he had every right to allow whoever he came with into the premises.
“This is not any place. This is the High Court and I am the one to decide who should come with me in the court,” The visible annoyed Odinga shouted.
Three days later, Raila scored a major victory when the Supreme Court declared President Kenyatta's elections null and void.
