Senior Counsel Ahemdnasir Abdullahi has responded to the Supreme Court's decision to bar him, his law firm - Ahmednasir Abdullahi Advocates LLP - and any other representative from appearing before the apex court.
Via his social media pages, Ahmednasir wrote "Isn’t it a badge of honour for the most corrupt court in Kenya to refuse me and my law firm an audience?"
Ahmednasir was yet to issue any other response which may be argued as 'given through other channels of communication'.
In the press release sent to Kenyans.co.ke by the Supreme Court and also posted on the SC's social media pages, seven judges of the court unanimously agreed to bar Ahmednasir and his law firm from appearing before it.
The Apex Court, on Thursday, accused the lawyer of "relentlessly and unabashedly conducting a campaign in the broadcast, print and social media aimed at scandalizing, ridiculing and out rightly denigrating the Court."
"Given the foregoing, it is the decision of this Court, that henceforth and from the date of this Communication, you shall have no audience before the Court, either by yourself, through an employee of your law firm, or any other person," read part of the statement drafted by Letizia Muthoni Wachira, the Registrar of the Supreme Court.
Wachira stated that she was authorised by the full seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Kenya to address SC Ahmednasir alias the Grand Mullah.
"Through social media posts, media interviews, and write-ups, you have accused the Court either in its constitutive persona, or individual membership, of acts of corruption, incompetence, and outright bribery. This, you have done with reckless abandon, paying scant regard to the reputations of those who tirelessly serve on the Court in accordance with their Oath of Office.
"Notwithstanding the damage to the reputation of the Court, and the Judges who have served thereon over the years, both in its corporate and individual posture and to render justice to those you represent, the Court has exercised restraint by not deploying the punitive tools available to it against you," the registrar stated.
Chief Justice Martha Koome, her deputy Philomena Mwilu, and Justices Mohamed Khadhar Ibrahim, Dr. Smokin Wanjala, Justice Njoki Susanna Ndung'u, Isaac Lenaola, and William Ouko argued that they warned the SC that such conduct would in the future, not go unpunished.
Nonetheless, SC Ahmednasir was alleged to have persisted in attacking the leadership and membership of the Supreme Court despite the warning.
"Much as this decision is bound to affect those who may have instructed you to represent them before the Court, it is untenable that you would seek justice in the very institution and before the very Judges, whose reputation and integrity you never tire in assaulting," Wachira, the Registrar of the Supreme Court noted.
The Supreme Court, in the communique sent to the lawyer, compiled some of the statements he was accused of generating against the Court.
It further warned that the complication of the statements would serve as evidence against Ahmednasir should anyone question the court's judgement.
