National Super Alliance chief strategist David Ndii and opposition allied businessman Jimi Wanjigi have won a crucial case in which they had sued the Immigration Department for suspending their passports.
Ndii, Wanjigi and five other senior opposition leaders had sued Immigration head Gordon Kihalang'wa for what they termed illegal suspension of their passports after they oversaw the controversial swearing-in of former prime minister Raila Odinga as the people's president on January 30th.
The others whose passports had been suspended and had been enjoined in the case included another NASA strategist Henry Mien, Siaya Senator James Orengo, University of Nairobi political science lecturer Dr Adams Oloo, Dagoretti North MP Simba Arati and lawyer Paul Mwangi.
High Court Judge Wilfrida Okwany in her ruling argued that Kihalang'wa and Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i did not give specific reasons for the suspension of the seven passports.
The suspension followed Matiang'i's crackdown on leaders who oversaw Raila's swearing-in an event that was conducted at Nairobi's Uhuru Park.
The case was determined after political temperatures cooled down following the March 9th handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila in which the two argued was meant to unite the country that came out of the August 8th and October 26th 2017 general and repeat elections respectively sharply divided on tribal lines.
Raila's swearing-in came with a series of arrests where opposition leaders George Aladwa (MP Makadara), his Ruaraka counterpart Tom Kajwang' and lawyer Dr Miguna Miguna were arrested and detained.