Azimio La Umoja has filed petition under certificate of urgency against KDF deployment to quell protests ahead of a ruling on a similar case by the Law Society of Kenya .
The petition argued the ramification of KDF deployment requires a special motion which requires a special sitting. As evidenced by the said Supplementary Order Paper, the deployment of the Defence Forces was done without approval of the National Assembly, rendering the actions a nullity," the court papers read.
"What we are seeing is parliament and the executive treating us to a circus to cover up. We have never seen a scenario such as this since the 1982 coup," she said. "The military are there to put fear and intimidate the people of Kenya and frustrate the citizens to exercise their rights and they are still on streets to date,"she argued.