As the clock ticked down to the deadline for filing a petition challenging the repeat presidential elections, two former student leaders arrived at the Supreme Court with an unusual request. George Bush and John Chengo wanted the court to allow them to file a petition challenging President Kenyatta's win without paying the mandatory Sh1.5 million court fees.
The two former Moi University student leaders filed a pauper's brief which allows a poor person to argue in court without paying court fees claiming they live in grinding poverty. In their brief, they say that they live in 'a run down and mud-thatched house without windows in the disgraced slums of Huruma estate' in Nairobi.
Arguing his case further, George Bush says he lives off a single meal a day unlike the customary three meals. They want the Supreme Court to annul the repeat presidential polls on grounds that the withdrawal of Raila Odinga and no elections being held in 25 constituencies affected the outcome.
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