JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
John Kimani Gitau (the appellant herein) filed an appeal against the judgment of Mshila, J delivered on 5th June, 2015.
A brief background to the appeal is that the appellant filed a Petition in the High Court of Kenya at Nakuru being Petition No. 3 of 2014 against the Attorney General (the respondent herein) seeking the following orders:
“(i) a declaration that the fundamental rights and freedoms of the petitioner (the appellant herein) were contravened and violated various times during the trial;
(ii) a declaration that holding the petitioner in police custody for twenty-one (21) days before taking him to court was unconstitutional;
(iii) a declaration that the trial of the petitioner without taking plea was illegal and unconstitutional;
(iv) a declaration that the three year period that the trial took was in contravention of the Constitution’s provisions for speedy trial;
(v) a declaration that the petitioner’s right to have a trial concluded without unreasonable del…