2016 Matthew Damaru and Timothy Gitua case

This comes after the court on Aug 16 agreed with an earlier Supreme Court decision that two parties in the respective cases require the approval of the Attorney General to engage private lawyers to represent them.

The cases are SCA 7/2016, an appeal that originates from OS JR 485 of 2014, the judicial review into the PM’s arrest warrant issue and the case involving the former Police Commissioner, Geoffrey Vaki, challenging his conviction and sentencing last year for contempt of court.

A three-man Supreme Court bench upheld an objection by Vaki’s lawyers that Matthew Damaru and Timothy Gitua were not proper parties before the court as they require approval by the Attorney General to engage private counsels to represent them.

The court in its decision today found that the Director and Deputy Director of Fraud and Anti- Corruption Directorate, Damaru and Gitua, cannot declare something contrary to what has been implied in a previous judicial determination – the Marape appeal case decision on Feb 24.

This is while they are acting in their capacity as police officers.

A three-man Supreme Court bench handed down its decision today after lawyers representing the Prime Minster, the state, and Police Commissioner raised an objection on whether Matthew Damaru and Timothy Gitua are able to engage lawyers to act for them in the case without the approval of the Attorney General.

This is case SCA 7/2016. It is an appeal that originates from OS JR 485 of 2014, the judicial review into the PM’s arrest warrant issue.