Lawyers and judges huwa wanatubeba kama wajinga. NASA delivers 9,000 pages and then IEBC responds with 54,000 pages. Without saying it they expect Kenyans to believe that in 14 days the 7 judges will have read the 63,000 pages of documents as well as listened to all the lawyers before arriving at a decision. The judgement has already been written, nobody is going to pretend to read 63,000 pages of anything.

I think the late Tuiyot was a more honest corrupt man. He never used to pretend that he could only arrive at a decision after hearing a case. He was famous for meeting people on a Saturday or Sunday when the case was to be heard the following week and if the terms were agreeable he would tell you when to bring your case and what the judgement would be. He would say, "leta yeye Jumatatu, mimi tafunga yeye" or if you were approaching him about an appeal "kuja kesho, nitafuta hiyo kesi."

Four documents in Nasa leader Raila Odinga’s petition challenging the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta were filed after the deadline, according to the Supreme Court.

The court’s registrar, Ms Esther Nyaiyaki, said in a letter to Mr Odinga’s lawyers on Monday that the Supreme Court has received two complete sets of 59 volumes of their petition and that, on Sunday, the lawyers submitted six more.

She also said that three key documents were missing from the National Super Alliance’s petition.

The contention over the late filing has echoes of the 2013 presidential election petition, when the Supreme Court threw out a 900-page affidavit filed by the now-defunct Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) on the basis that it was filed out of time.