Martha Karua and Kirinyaga governor Anne Waiguru. [PHOTO/Standard]
After losing the petition challenging the election of Kirinyaga governor Anne Waiguru, Martha Karua has suffered another blow.
The former Gichugu MP was ordered to pay a fine of Sh10 million as the bill for the cost of the suit.
In her ruling, Justice Lucy Gitari said Karua had failed to comply with provisions of the Elections Act 2017 and so her appeal could not stand.
According to Justice Gitari, provisions of the Act "are clear that a petitioner must disclose the full election results and the date such a declaration was made".
This, she said, Karua failed to meet.
“This petition faces the consequences of non-compliance and has no basis for going on trial with these kinds of defects while doing so would be an exercise in futility,” Gitari ruled.
“Any petition that fails to state the date of the election, the results of such an election and how declared is fatally defective, hopeless and beyond salvage," the judge added in her two-hour ruling.
Karua however vowed to move to the court of appeal.