Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Vol. 10: An Appeal On The Decision of The Advocates Complaints Commission By The Secretary at Cooperative Building, 20th Floor, Nairobi, Delivered-and-Issued On Friday 18th November, 2022 At 4:02 PM In COMPLAINT-CC/PE/AUG/22/36:- I Squeezed Final Submission Vol. 12 Subject To Deadline Extension To The ACC-Secretariat: Ombudsman-Kisumu PDF-Attachment back to square-A ACC c/o OAG: GoK sadist, animist-witch, GLBTQ-Occultist ex-President Uhuru's and co. political-legal abuse endemic, systemic-and-systematic corruption continued sanctioned endless-persecution ( for purposes of shielding his criminal co-conspirators, accomplices and bosom-buddies from persecution ) to embezzle me my now 10yrs 4-months Kihara-Construction accident evidence-destruction / spoliation continuous-violations-of-the-law series-of-crimes 10m+ litigation damages case as Ombudsman-Kisumu finally replied on 25th July 2022 on a PDF-letter addressed way back on 28th April 2022 even before the Ombudsman-Nairobi contacted me on 23rd May 2022. I pray the divine-intervention of civil-society-groups / concerned authorities to fasttrack arrest-and-prosecution of the impunity for purposes of expediting payment of my risked damages as I wane in virility at 44yrs of imposed pauperism unable to date or marry. SOS.

NB:- I plead with the Appellate Advocates Complaints Commission to add me some little bit more time before the deadline considering that I fell sick with a fever, chills and aches which took like a week+ to recover; plus the incessant power-and-internet blackouts not to mention my GoK-imposed indigence.

Dear Sir / Madam,
I've jus' started the appeal against time, resources and behind-the-scenes-corruption / interferences by the adversely-mentioned accomplices / co-conspirators of the unscrupulous-advocates below, greatly hampering the progress of the same by including suspicious manipulations of incessant power-and-internet blackouts ; not to mention having to divide the meager coins between food and the cyber cafe to file this appeal which I hope you'll bear with me till my last submission. I pray the divine-intervention of civil-society-groups and concerned-authorities to impress upon the Advocates Complaints Commission-Secretariat c/o Office of the Attorney General to Certify the cited Appeal-matter below as Urgent and hear it henceforth as complete-submission with regards to dispensing the service of the application in the first instance due to the nature of the 10yrs 5-months political-legal abuse delays and the reliefs sought. Funds to support filing the Appeal can be channeled through:-
MPESA:-{ +254723047863 or +254764087863 }; 

BANK:-{ Equity Bank, Migori Branch, Acc. No. 1160168298894 }. SOS. 

Thank you in advance.
Yours Faithfully,
Erick Mango.


(A.):- Introduction

1.-The Respondent-Advocates Complaints Commission's DECISION against me the Indigent-Appellant in the subordinate cause was based on my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 as submitted then, of I the Indigent Petitioner/Plaintiff  Erick Otieno Mango Versus the Defendants Owade & Co. Advocates and Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) which was anchored on :-

"the tort of professional negligence-and-liability as concerns breach-of-duty and nuisance with regards to continuous-violations-of-the-law traffic-accident evidence-destruction / spoliation series-of-crimes political-legal abuses involving Owade & Co. Advocates in cahoots with Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) conjunctively with accomplices and co-conspirators including Migori Police Station Traffic Police and Kihara-Construction, plus two ex-Chiefs of Suna East Amara and Odero-and-his-son, plus Peter-and-Pamela Mango the dysfunctional, compulsive-neurotic sex-perverts I've disowned pending due process… as detailed in the attached blog-site authorities links memos-letter correspondences to civil-society-groups and concerned authorities" ; as cited in Per Anderson B in "Blyth v Birmingham Waterworks Co. 1865 "that the tort-of-Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do."

2.-That pursuant to the said basis-of-my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 as submitted then, which the Advocates Complaints Commission went forth to reiterate therein above that the mandate of the Commission as lies within Section 53 of the Advocates Act is to deal with complaints against advocates, law firms or their employees for acts of professional misconduct, not tort; and further, that my allegation wasn't be backed by any evidence authorizing them to inquire deeper into the complaint, thus lacked 'substance'.

3.-I hereby take this solemn opportunity in application pursuant to the provisions of Order 8 of the Civil Procedure Rules, 2010 as read together with Section 214 of the Criminal Procedure Code to seek orders that I the Indigent Petitioner-Appellant be granted leave to AMEND this Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 lodged with the Commission from the 19th August 2022 through to the submission deadline of 4th October 2022 because of my govt. of Kenya's political-legal imposed indigent / penniless-pauperism status which couldn't allow me to lodge it in one piece and instead had to in bits-and-piecespremised on grounds set-out as follows:-

(a.):-"That the proposed amendments are intended to bring before this Honorable 'Appellant-Advocates Complaints Commission' the real matters in controversy between the Parties herein so that the same are determined on their true and substantive merits.

(b.):-The proposed amendments are further necessitated by information relevant for the fair and just determination of the real questions in controversy in this appeal which came to me, the Petitioner-Appellant/Applicant's knowledge subsequent to the filing of the Petition.

(c.):-The time allowed under the Civil Procedure Act and Constitution of Kenya (Protection of Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) Practice Procedure Rules 2013 for amendment of Petition has not expired.

(d.):-The proposed amendments will not occasion any prejudice to the Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission ;

(e.):-The proposed amendments arise out of the same facts or substantially the same facts in respect of which relief is claimed by the Petitioner-Appellant/Applicant ;

(f.):-It is therefore in the interest of justice that I the Petitioner-Appellant/Applicant should be granted leave to amend its Petition filed herein."

4.-In that context, I aver that the issue of amendment of pleadings is not novel and has been the subject of numerous Court decisions, the common denominator being that as a general principle, Courts will normally allow amendment of pleadings at any stage of the proceedings if it can be done without occasioning injustice or prejudice to the other party and which prejudice can be compensated by an award of costs - See generally Eastern Bakery vs Castelino (1958) EA 461, Ochieng and Others vs First National Bank of Chicago Civil Appeal No. 149 of 1991 and Kenya Commercial Bank vs Kenyatta National Hospital & Another (2003) 2 EA.

5.-My Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 being as much a Constitutional Petition as far as the Protection of Rights and Fundamental Freedoms go the rules of procedure applicable are the Constitution of Kenya (Protection of Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) Practice and Procedure Rules, 2013. In that regard, Rule 18 of the Rules provides that, "a party that wishes to amend its pleadings at any stage of the proceedings may do so with the leave of the Court". As to the applicability of that Rule, in The Institute for Social Accountability and Another vs Parliament of Kenya and 2 Others Petition No.71 of 2013, the Court stated that;

"Rule 18 of the Rules clearly stipulates that the court may permit an amendment at any stage of the proceedings. The court will normally allow parties to make such amendments as may be necessary for determining the real questions in controversy or to avoid a multiplicity of suits, provided there has been no undue delay, no new or inconsistent cause of action is introduced, and no vested interest or accrued legal right is affected and that the amendment can be allowed without an injustice to the other side." 

6.-In this regard I also rely by Precedent aka Case-law or Common-Law on the case of The Institute for Social Accountability (supra) where the Court stated as follows as regards the purpose of amendments;

"The object of amendments is to enable the parties to alter their pleadings so as to ensure that the litigation between them is conducted, not on the false hypothesis of the facts already pleaded or the relief or remedy already claimed, but rather on the basis of the true state of the facts which the parties really and finally intend to rely on. The power of amendment makes the function of the court more effective in determining the substantive merits of the case rather than holding it captive to form of the action or proceedings."


7.-In applying the above principles here, I the Petitioner-Appellant am of the view that the ends of justice will be achieved and the principles and values enunciated in the Public Officer Ethics Act, 2003 (POEA), the Leadership and Integrity Act (LIA), 2011, Chapter Six and Article 73 of the Constitution of Kenya-2010 will better be served if this Appeal in my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 as AMENDED herein is allowed and the issues in contest dealt with wholly. 

8.-Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya-2010 provides Leadership and Integrity requirements while the Public Officer Ethics Act, 2003 (POEA), the Leadership and Integrity Act (LIA), 2011 and other relevant regulations prescribe the codes of Ethics and Conduct for public officers.  Article 73provides for the thresholds of personal integrity, competence and suitability prerequisites for any appointments.

9.-Chapter Six CoK-2010 further obligates all public officers to behave in manners that safeguard the dignity-and-honour of the offices and promote public confidence in the integrity of the offices ; which emphatically with Article 3 CoK-2010 obligates us citizens whom sovereignty lies-with, to respect, uphold and protect the Constitution ; as read together with Section 4(1) of the Leadership and Integrity Act (LIA), 2011, which apportions responsibility on every person to implement the provision of the Leadership and Integrity Act (LIA), 2011 ; either and/or by seeking legal redress for any contraventions of Chapter Six and integrity requirements. In this instance I rely on the precedent / case law authority in both :- 

(a.):-Watitu and Mumo Matemu, where the Court of Appeal affirmed that any Kenyan has the locus standi in seeking judicial redress on breach of Chapter Six provided the person acts in good faith and for public good ; and

(b.):-Trusted Society of Human Rights Alliance Vs the AG & Others, Nairobi, HC Pet. No. 229 of 2012.-"Kenyans intended that Chapter Six and Article 73 will be enforced in the spirit in which they included them in the Constitution. The people of Kenya did not intend that these provisions on integrity and suitability for public offices be merely suggestions, superfluous or ornamental; they did not intend to include these provisions as lofty aspirations." 

10.-At this point, this 'Appellant Advocates Complaints Commission' is not concerned with the substantive merits of me the Petitioner-Appellant's case as those are matters that will be canvassed at the HEARING and I am therefore satisfied that the AMENDMENT will help the Court conclusively determine the issue before it and declining the AMENDMENT at this stage may only lead to the filing of another suit and such an approach would negate the principles of judicial authority enunciated in Article 159(2) of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 that all suits should be expeditiously determined.

11.-I thus urge the  Advocates-Complaints-Commission-and-its-Secretary c/o OAG being the principal regulator of the legal profession in Kenya in accordance with the edict in  Advocates Act Section 53 Cap 16, mandating it to protect the general public in matters touching to, incidental or ancillary to the law, to hence  exercise its powers under Section 57 & 60(1)(2)(3) with regards to expeditiously investigating-and-prosecuting the adversely mentioned unscrupulous Owade & Co. Advocates and Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) lawyers' aggravated professional-misconducts Breach-of-Contracts in each respective instance since they flouted-and-violated mandatory procedure in statutory-and-constitutional guidelines choosing to rather engage in alien procedure that resulted in illegalities grounding my claims for violation-infringement of my fundamental rights-and-freedoms ; as read together with Sec 61(3) on the OAG exercise of disciplinary powersand as read together with Sec 61(1) on binding orders and Sec 31 Advocates Act Cap 16 on advocates offences ; as well as read together with Sec 53(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9) and Sec 4(b)(e) and Sec 57(1)(2)(3)(4); not to mention as read together with the LSK Act Cap 18, Cap 15 & Article 59(4); and the provisions of the Rules of Court on the administration of the Evidence Act CAP 80 encompassing the rules and legal principles that govern the proof of facts in legal proceedings besides generally referring to that which is used to prove facts in issue or facts from which facts-in-issue may be deduced ; as read together with the Practice and Procedure Rules 2013 aka ("Mutunga Rules") of which the overriding scope-and-objective is to facilitate access to justice for all persons with regards to enforcement of the Bill of Rights under Article 22(3) as concerns the Protection of Rights and Fundamental Freedoms...  as read together with Article 23 and Article 165 (3) (b) of the Constitution of Kenya ; for which in this regard, Sub rule 4 provides that the Court in exercise of its jurisdiction under the Mutunga Rules shall facilitate the just, expeditious, proportionate and affordable resolution of all cases ; and where-by furthermore, Sub rule 7 states that the Court shall pursue access to justice for all persons including the poor, illiterate, uninformed, unrepresented, and persons with disabilities... as read together with Articles 47 on administrative-dysfunctions or impunity in the context of  administrative-action in Article 59(1) (h)(i)(k); to thus process this Application under a Certificate-of-Urgency and commence HEARING it thenceforth in the first instance due to the nature of the 10 years 5 months Uhuru's, Raila's (in my broad lawsuit) and now Ruto's AMACO-INSURANCE criminal-conspiracies' political-legal abuses delays, and reliefs-sought amid death-threats which endlessly violate my fundamental rights and freedoms as provided-for in Articles 25(a-d), 27(1-5), 28, 29(a-f) 45(2), 48 and 50(1) as demonstrated explicitly-and-implicitly in detail in my correspondances to civil-society-groups and recorded in my blog-sites including;
(d.):-( 

as I wither-and-wane in virility, unable to neither kick-start my stalled businesses, date nor marry at 44 years.


(B.):- Background

12.-In order to fully understand me, the Petitioner-Appellant's Application, it is imperative to highlight the gist of my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36. In my subsequent Submission dated Wed, Nov 16 at 5:27 PM  I averred that Senior State Counsel Leah M Mutua who is the Secretary of the Advocates Complaints Commission violated the provisions of the Contempt of Court Act No 46 of 2016 aka Contempt-of-Court or of Judicial-Process or Contempt-in-Procedure, or just Civil-Contempt which are quasi-criminal in nature and consist-and-refer to conduct of parties abusing the judicial process to the irritation-and-annoyance of their opponents for purposes of interfering with the efficient-and-effective administration of justice by impeding-and-perverting the course of the same through failing to comply with court-orders, directions of tribunals or breaching of judicial-processes undertakings { Osborne's Concise Law Dictionary, P. 102  and Kenyalaw.org } and Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 as she continued to discharge her responsibilities as the Secretary of the Advocates Complaints Commission... as demonstrated in the Wed, Nov 16 at 5:27 PM  letter's caption below...:-

"Dear Sir / Madam,
                            Briefly, after I'd managed to complete up to between 90-95% of the ACC c/o OAG submission-presentations exhausting the issues raised by the ACC-Secretary who'd cut the Nairobi-HQ travel-lodging meeting logistics expenses to a phone-call finally called past their programmed-schedule of 'in the course of the week' between 7-11th November, 2022 this morning on Monday, November 14, 2022 repeating the same issues I'd already exhausted in my written-submissions and/or as lodged in their portal; though my phone battery died midway.
                The bone-of-contention is that the ACC-Secretary had asked on (Thursday, November 3, 2022) to  "allow me to call you in the course of the coming week to better explain what the mandate of the Commission entails;only for her to change tune on calling and instead revert to more-or-less what seemed like a 'Direct Examination' for a Deposition! 
                        I'd been psyched or prepared for a 'Tell-and-Explain' listening-session and thought I was going to be oriented on a dissection of what 'hot airs,' 'wild-goose-chases' or 'piki piki ponkies' vis-a-vis 'matters-and-facts of law' my written-submissions entailed with regards to the Advocates-Complaints-Commission mandates; yet to my surprise I got instead what appeared to be a Q&A Direct-Examination seemingly to corroborate-or-authenticate the written and portal-lodged submissions. It was a deliberate, intentional disorientation to throw an unsuspecting political-legally abused indigent off-wind for which I'd to find my own bearings in two days of reflective inquiry and conclude the above that 'twas an Oral-Deposition to corroborate and authenticate the written. 
                     I stand to be corrected if I'm mistaken and hence, feeling short-changed hereby hold the Commission and Secretary personally-and-collectively liable, responsible and accountable for any misconceptions, damages or torts accruing from the same including generally: 
              (1.):-Contempt-of-Court or Judicial-Process aka Contempt-in-Procedure, Civil-Contempt which are quasi-criminal in nature and consist-and-refer to conduct of parties abusing the judicial process to the irritation-and-annoyance of their opponents for purposes of interfering with the efficient-and-effective administration of justice by impeding-and-perverting the course of the same through failing to comply with court-orders, directions of tribunals or breaching of judicial-processes undertakings { Osborne's Concise Law Dictionary, P. 102  and Kenyalaw.org }; contrary to the Contempt of Court Act No 46 of 2016.
              My conscience rests in the 'benefit of doubt' I rendered the  Advocates-Complaints-Commission-and-Secretary in concluding 'twas rather a 'Direct-Examination' Deposition following my reflective-inquiry on their suspicious, unbecoming conducts in the opaque manner they run their operations. Otherwise, I smell a rat in ICC-Indicted mass-murderers and thieves who've taken-over the govt. with a paltry 7.1m votes outta the registered 22m voters in the name of William Ruto behind-the-scenes who's selectively had corrupt economic-crimes cartel cases of his cronies dropped as is demonstrated in the links below ; and is known to be a shrewd poacher of political-parties opponents by bribes and thus the ACC must be bending to his whims in fear of political-repercussions including losing their jobs should they deliver unfavorable judgments or attempt to bring his defendant company AMACO-INSURANCE to book and prosecute them for my KShs 10m+ damages delayed for the past 10yrs 15 months."

...In this my Petitioner-Appellant's Application I therefore seek inter alia an order to the effect that this Appellate Advocates-Complaints-Commission declares that a person shall be strictly liable for contempt of court in any case where the person does any act which interferes or tends to interfere with the course of justice in relation to any judicial proceedings. For purposes of subsection (3), it shall be immaterial whether the interference was not intentional.


(C.):-Contentious Issues Mis-interpreted In Law-and-Fact, Mis-informed, Mis-comprehended, Mis-directed, Mis-guided, Mis-led by The learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary In Arriving At Their Inconclusive, Defective, Arbitrary, Biased, Discriminative, Political-Legal Abuse Decision...Herein Exhaustively Addressed and/or Re-Addressed by Me The Petitioner-Appellant

13.-(a.):-The Mandate of the Advocates Complaints Commission

The  Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary averred inter alia erroneously that:-

(a1.)-"...if it appears to the Commission whether before or after investigation that there is substance in the complaint but that the matter complained of constitutes or appears to constitute a disciplinary offence it shall forthwith refer the matter to the Disciplinary Committee;..."

-Petitioner-Appellant Argument:- The overwhelming evidence knowingly, deliberately and intentionally disregarded-and-discarded by the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary to shield-and-exonerate the renown, corrupt thief-and-murderer, ICC-Indicted executive William Samoei Ruto from prosecution and liabilities clearly demonstrates that my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 as amended is indeed a prima facie case as is proved beyond reasonable doubt by the documents subpoenaed upon Penninah Ngondi Wawira, Prosecution Counsel in the ODPP ( which the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary knowingly, deliberately and intentionally rushed to evade-and-dismiss their relevance-and-credibility for the same ends above ) to produce containing the signatures, rubber stamps, venues, dates and all of the unscrupulous defendants Owade & Co. Advocates and Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) indicating their breaches-of-contracts they undertook halfway in each respective instance before being persuaded otherwise by the adversely mentioned 'powers-of-darkness' President William Samoei Ruto who owns the AMACO-INSURANCE Company, directly or indirectly by proxies.

(a2.)-"...During our tele-conversation with the complainant on 14th November 2022,informed you that all complaints received by the Commission must first pass through the sieve to ensure that they have 'merit' or as described above, 'substance'...For the Commission to decide whether or not a complaint has 'merit' or 'substance' the same is weighed based on the 'evidence' adduced otherwise what would make a complaint worth of pursuit stand out from any other allegation made by anyone against another? The Commission in its implementation of its mandate relies entirely on evidence in determining whether or not a complaint falls within the constraints of what the Commission deals with, being allegations against advocates for acts of professional misconduct..." ;
-Petitioner-Appellant Argument:-The overwhelming evidence as submitted in my prima facie Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36
as amended and as subpoenaed upon Penninah Ngondi Wawira, Prosecution Counsel in the ODPP  to produce the listed 
documentary evidence containing the signatures, rubber stamps, venues, dates and all of the unscrupulous defendants Owade & Co. Advocates and Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) indicating the half-baked breaches-of-contracts they undertook halfway in each respective instance before being persuaded otherwise in behind-the-scenes-corruption by the adversely mentioned 'powers-of-darkness' President William Samoei Ruto who owns the AMACO-INSURANCE Company, directly or indirectly by proxies... is water-tightly full-and-bursting under the weight of merit-and-substance with regards to the unscrupulous defendants Owade & Co. Advocates and Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) professional-misconducts' grievous disciplinary offences. The evidences the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary rushed in their discriminative, political-legal abuse, arbitrary-decision to shield-and-exonerate the renown, corrupt thief-and-murderer, ICC-Indicted executive William Samoei Ruto from prosecution and liabilities as is clearly demonstrated in my prima facie Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 as amended.

(a3.)-"...You have been informed and reminded of our mandate in our letters to you and the importance of documentary evidence. Complaints without evidence are merely allegations without proof..." ;
-Petitioner-Appellant Argument:- I've proved my allegations against the accused unscrupulous defendants Owade & Co. Advocates and Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) beyond reasonable doubt with the evidences the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary are playing hard to expunge in the same manner-and-pattern the mentioned suspects and accomplices engaged in continuous-violations-of-the-law traffic-accident evidence-destruction / spoliation series-of-crimes political-legal abuses.

    (b.):-Proof of Payment
The  Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary averred inter alia erroneously that:-
(b1.)-"...An advocate, as in any other profession, is entitled to legal fees for professional services rendered within the course of his professional duty. Section 46 of the Advocates Act explains more in Advocate's remuneration and further states that '... such agreement shall be valid and binding on the parties PROVIDED IT IS IN WRITING and signed by the client or his agent duly authorized on that behalf.'  In the Help Form filed and signed by yourself on 18th August 2022, you indicated that you had paid the advocate legal fees but then went ahead to state that it was an '..abuse of the court process to ask for proof of payment of legal fees...' Take note that 'He who alleges must prove'..." ;
-Petitioner-Appellant Argument:-This is one of the issues extensively exhausted to prove beyond reasonable doubt in my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 originally even before the amendments herein, in a submission entitled 'On ISSUE No. 2 of availing proof of payment of the legal fees to the advocate(s)' and found in the links :-
-A fact which's another pointer to the complacency and/or corruption-behind-the-scenes of the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary as relates to misleading-and-misguiding notions and matters-and-facts of the law, and/or selective bias of cases in abuse-of-authority-and-powers / office as regards never reading submissions let alone analyzing-or-evaluating them..
-I urge the the  Appellate Advocates Complaints Commission to review the said submission without need or repeating the submission herein and come-up with an independent assessment. Otherwise, briefly for purposes of clarity :
"The paid legal fees referred to the KSh 100 paid to Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) for the purposes of 'opening-a-file' office procedure" ; while
-"The ref. 'abuse of the court process to ask for proof of legal fees' is with respect to public policy practice that prohibits 
a party from benefiting from an illegality that they were a party to as was demonstrated when D. Njogu & Company Advocates appealed such a decision, whereby the Court of Appeal reiterated that 'it is an abuse of court process for the advocate to seek the Court's intervention in basing its fees on the Advocates Remuneration Order whose provisions he had in the first instance deliberately ignored.'
-I indeed submitted therein in my titled 'On ISSUE No. 2 of availing proof of payment of the legal fees to the advocate(s)' that first-and-foremost that 'it's an abuse of the court process to ask for proof of payment of legal-fees since such a transaction's based on or assumes basis on the requisite Advocates Remuneration Order whose provisions the unscrupulous Owade & Co. Advocates and Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) had in the first instances knowingly, intentionally, deliberately, unlawfully and illegally ignored-and-omitted in their professional misconduct endeavors. The  Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretariat c/o OAG couldn't therefore allow misconceptionally for the accused culprit advocates to maintain proceedings whose objective defectively avoids or circumvents unprofessional, fraudulent, deficient agreements / contracts in order to exonerate themselves from any future binding liabilities as per Sec 45(1) of the Advocates Act which allows advocates and their clients to enter into agreements with respect to the advocate's 
remuneration.
-The rest of the pleadings therein are as found in the cited submissions above.

(b2.)"...Kindly note that proof of payment in your case would act as evidence that you indeed instructed the advocate, paid a retainer fee for which the Commission would then have authority to inquire from the advocate(s)under which circumstances had he/they received the money paid by you. We wish to reiterate that 'merit' or 'substance' is sourced from evidence, which in this case, is missing...."
-Petitioner-Appellant Argument:- First I was as I still am utterly shocked that the the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary deliberately, knowingly, discriminatingly decided to disregard the fundamental doctrine of Common Law called the doctrine of precedent, which is captured in the Latin maxim: "Stare decisis et non quieta movere," meaning: "It is best to adhere to decisions and not to disturb questions put at rest."... contrary to the Evidence Act CAP 80 Sec 60(1)(a) on facts on which courts shall take judicial notice' including all written laws, and all laws, rules and principles, written or unwritten, having the force of law, whether in force or having such force as aforesaid before, at or after the commencement of this Act, in any part of Kenya;
-( http://kenyalaw.org/kl/index.php?id=124 ):-The Kenyan legal system is descended from the British Common Law system. One of the fundamental doctrines of this Common Law is the doctrine of precedent, which is captured in the Latin maxim: "Stare decisis et non quieta movere," meaning: "It is best to adhere to decisions and not to disturb questions put at rest."
-A precedent is a judgment or decision of a court, normally recorded in a law report, used as an authority for reaching the same decision in a subsequent case. Loosely translated, the doctrine of precedent means that cases involving similar circumstances should be decided by the application of similar principles of law. . The application of this doctrine means, generally, that every court is bound to follow the decisions made by the court above it and, on the whole, appellate courts also have to follow their own decisions.
-The Supreme Court is the highest court in Kenya and its decisions are binding on the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Magistrate's Courts as well as specialized courts and tribunals. The Supreme Court would normally also follow its own decisions unless it can overrule them so that they are set aside and cease to have the force of precedent. The decisions of the Court of Appeal are binding on the High Court and the Magistrates Courts while those of the High Court are binding on the Magistrate's Courts. The decisions of the Magistrate Courts do not in themselves create any binding precedent for any court.
-This doctrine of precedent as properly applied greatly aids in the administration of justice in the following ways:- 
(a.)-It ensures certainty in the law. People are able to order their affairs and come to settlements with a certain amount of confidence when the outcome of litigation can be predicted by referring to previous decisions of the courts.
(b.)-It ensures the impartiality and transparency of judges. Generally, a judge is bound to follow the law enunciated in a previous case unless he or she can overrule or distinguish it.
(c.)- It offers opportunities for the development of the law and the evolution of jurisprudence which cannot be provided by Parliament. The courts can more quickly lay down new principles, or extend old principles, to meet novel circumstances


   (c.):-Establishment of Advocate-Client Relationship
The  Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary averred inter alia erroneously that:-
-"....It is imperative that you establish an advocate-client relationship while lodging a complaint against 'your' advocate for acts of professional misconduct. In the event legal fees were not paid and/or a written fee agreement is lacking, one is able to establish the same by way of correspondence between yourself as the client and the advocate discussing matters to do with the brief..." ;
--Petitioner-Appellant Argument:-

-"...You allegedly instructed advocates to render professional legal services on your behalf in exchange for legal fees but you have failed to establish the existence of instructions / advocate-client relationship between yourself and the advocate(s)..." ;
--Petitioner-Appellant Argument:-

   (d.):-Tort of professional Negligence and Liability
The  Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary averred inter alia erroneously that:-
(d1.)-"...In your submissions, you further indicated that , 'My complaint's grounded in the tort of professional negligence and liability...'noting to cite the decision of the court in 'Blyth vs Birmingham, read together with the breach of duty of care '...since their professional misconducts failed to meet the statutory requirement-thresholds set by law...' We wish to reiterate as herein above that the mandate of the Commission as lying within section 53 of the Advocates Act is to deal with complaints against advocates, law firms or their employees for acts of professional misconduct, not tort..." ;
-Petitioner-Appellant Argument:-I take this solemn opportunity without need of repetition to state that this issue has been exhaustively addressed above in my Introduction where I sought leave to Amend the same to anchor or ground my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 rather on Breach-of-Contract and not Tort pursuant to the provisions of Order 8 of the Civil Procedure Rules, 2010 as read together with Section 214 of the Criminal Procedure Code. 
-Furthermore I think it'll be prudent to state on behalf of the oppressed and tax-overburdened sovereign public / laity that the fact that the Commission doesn't deal with tort ain't mentioned anywhere neither in Section 53 of the Advocates Act or in the mission statements or forwards of the Advocates Complaints Commission.
-I only came across the fact by mere chance in the Office of the Attorney General's Facebook page last updated around 2020.
-The Advocates Complaints Commission hence was as still is at fault for failing to categorically have the same highlighted either in their mission statements or forwards for purposes of informing the public at large.

(d2.)-"...Further, your allegation has not been backed by any evidence authorizing us to inquire deeper into the complaint, thus lacking 'substance'..." ;
-Petitioner-Appellant Argument:-This is where the intentional, deliberate, misdirections-and-misleadings of the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary comes-in with regards to behind-the-scenes corruption as concerns the world-renown impunity of the Office of the Attorney General of Kenya's specialization to always shield-and-exonerate the corrupt-executive and his economy-cartels cronies from prosecution ; as was demonstrated in the US sanctioning of the former AG Amos Wako, his wife and son.
-This is especially so cause the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary's deficient allegation comes in the backdrop of when I'd jus' sent a letter on Thursday, Nov 17th 2022 at 4:10 PM to the Prosecution Counsel Peninnah Ngondi Wawira in the ODPP at penwawira@gmail.comamong others including the ACC-Secretary Leah M Mutua at leah.mutua@ag.go.ke , the  Advocates Complaints Commission at acc@ag.go.kethe Attorney General Justin Muturi at communications@ag.go.ke and civil-society-groups at large ; where the subject-matter ( Subject:-Prosecution Counsel Peninnah Ngondi Wawira in the ODPP Plea To Avail by Office-Messenger or Otherwise The Three Hard-Copy Documentary Evidences To The Advocates Complaints Commission Secretary Senior State Counsel.Leah M Mutua ) addressed squarely your unsubstantiated allegations of... 'evidence authorizing us to inquire deeper into the complaint, thus lacking 'substance'..." ;

-Did the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary liaise with the Prosecution Counsel Peninnah Ngondi Wawira in the ODPP to corroborate-and-verify the same? Nope. I can only read malice in the rush-and-shoddy manner you sped shifting goal-posts to arbitrarily deliver the discriminating, political-legal abuse decision on the following day Friday Nov 18th 2022 at 4:02 PM  "{ Subject: Decision On  ACC COMPLAINT- CC/PE/AUG/22/36 }...Good afternoon, Kindly find attached our response to your complaint lodged with the Advocates Complaints Commission. Yours Faithfully, }..."
...devoid of the crucial documentary evidence to shield-and-exonerate the corrupt thief and ICC-Indicted executive Ruto's-AMACO INSURANCE from prosecution. Links of the same are as provided below:-



   (e.):Inconclusive, Defective, Deficient, Prejudiced, Discriminative, Arbitrary, Political-Legal Abuse Conclusion
The  Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary averred inter alia erroneously that:-
(e1.)-"...It is noteworthy that you have failed, neglected and refused to cooperate with the Commission for the purposes of your complaint as clearly shown in your submissions..." ;
--Petitioner-Appellant Argument:

(e2.)-"...We have (in our communication to you) narrowed down what the Commission would need to pursue your complaint further but you have been insistent on explaining why what we have requested from you is not necessary..." ;
--Petitioner-Appellant Argument:-

(e3.)-"...The Advocates Complaints Commission is governed not only by the Advocates Act but also the Constitution of Kenya as read together with other laws allowing the Commission to act within the confines of the Law governing it. The Commission is required to accept complaints from the public however, the complaints are scrutinized to ensure that they fall within the limits of the law, thereby giving them 'substance' or 'merit' or lack thereof..." ;
--Petitioner-Appellant Argument:-

(e4.)-"...It is also within the mandate of the Commission pursuant to Section 53(4)(a) of the Act to reject a complaint lacking in merit. This complaint as is lacks merit which results from the lack of evidence and is therefore rejected..." ;
--Petitioner-Appellant Argument:-

(e5.)-"...You are at liberty to appeal the decision of the Commission by exercising your rights as under Section 53(8) of the Advocates Act CAP 16..." ;
-Petitioner-Appellant Argument:-I've duly done so as explained in my Introduction where I sought leave to Amend the original Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 and anchor or ground it rather on Breach-of-Contract and not Tort pursuant to the provisions of Order 8 of the Civil Procedure Rules, 2010 as read together with Section 214 of the Criminal Procedure Code ; for which I then proceeded forth to appeal the same as amended in my Section (D) reading ''The Appeal"

(e6.)-"...Further take note that the Commission is not a court or the Disciplinary Committee. The Commission works with the Disciplinary Committee in prosecuting complaints and thus the court procedure dictates the operations of the Commission while at the Prosecution stage/before the Committee but not at the preliminary stages upon receipt of complaints..." ;
-Petitioner-Appellant Argument:-I submit that the Advocates Complaints Commission is a 'Quasi-judicial' entity as far as its administrative-mandates go which without need of repetition I've demonstrated in my Submissions from Paragraph 26-30  indicating it operates as a department in the Office of the Attorney General and Department of Justice whereby it's tasked with the mandate of enhancing the rule of law and administration of justice, as a regulator of the legal-profession in Kenya and for which it's partly responsible for the realization of the National Vision 2030 by administering justice and professional discipline in the practice of law ;
-According to the 

Wex Definitions Team | LII / Legal Information Institute

 'Quasi-judicial' refers to a proceeding conducted by an administrative or executive official or organization that is 'similar to a court proceeding,' e.g. a hearing conducted by a human rights commission. A court may review a decision arising from a quasi-judicial proceeding. Quasi-judicial can also refer to a judicial act performed by an official who is either not a judge or not acting in his or her capacity as a judge. 
-The same is reflected in the Evidence Act CAP 80 Sec 3 on Interpretation which defines "court" as including all judges and magistrates, and persons, except arbitrators, legally authorized to take evidence; as well as Sec 34 (2)(a) CAP 80 which defines the expression "judicial proceeding" shall be deemed to include any proceeding in which evidence is taken by a person authorized by law to take that evidence on oath; and
-Practically, the same is self-evident in the conduct-and-operations of the Advocates Complaints Commission which so far has basically been replicating the court procedures right from the preliminary stage upon receipt of my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 and the reason why we've gone through the give-and-take submissions stage up to the tele-conversation / direct-examination / deposition stage, the decision / ruling / judgement stage and now the Appeal stage. The Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary are thus evidently misleading-and-misguiding, shoddy-and-shaddy in their interpretation of the dictates of running the Commission.


(e7.)-"...Take note that we shall proceed to close our file.
Yours faithfully,
FOR: COMMISSION SECRETARY,
ADVOCATES COMPLAINTS COMMISSION.
Leah M. Mutua
Senior State Counsel..."

(D.):- The Appeal

14.-The instant appeal examines the constitutionality of the legal regime governing the Advocates Complaints Commission process that culminated in the Mis-informed, Defective and Prejudiced Decision by the Advocates Complaints Commission dated the Friday 18th November, 2022 At 4:02 PM and delivered on its behalf by the Secretary sitting in their Headquarters at Cooperative Building , 20th Floor, Nairobi, in Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 of I the Petitioner-Appellant Erick Otieno Mango Versus Owade & Co. Advocates and Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) where the Advocates Complaints Commission inadvertently PROCEEDED TO PREMATURELY CLOSE THE FILE Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 discriminatively as per the five-issues cited in their response of the PDF-Letter dated Fri, Nov 18 at 4:02 PM including:-

(a.):-The Mandate of the Advocates Complaints Commission ;

(b.):-Proof of Payment ;

(c.):-Establishment of Advocate-Client Relationship ;

(d.):-Tort of professional Negligence and Liability ;

(e.):-DEFECTIVE CONCLUSION  ;

15.-In which said counterclaim I the Appellant herein seeks against the Respondent-Advocates Complaints Commission prosecution of my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 before the Advocates Disciplinary Committee / Tribunal for Breach-of-Contract with regards to continuous-violations-of-the-law traffic-accident evidence-destruction / spoliation series-of-crimes political-legal abuses involving Owade & Co. Advocates in cahoots with Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) conjunctively with accomplices and co-conspirators including Migori Police Station Traffic Police and Kihara-Construction, plus two ex-Chiefs of Suna East Amara and Odero-and-his-son, plus Peter-and Pamela Mango the dysfunctional, compulsive-neurotic sex-perverts I've disowned pending due process... as detailed in the attached blog-site authorities links memos-letter correspondences to civil-society-groups and concerned authorities ; 

16.-Both unscrupulous Owade & Co. Advocates plus Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates professional misconducts' aggravated, disciplinary-offences' continuous-violations-of-the-law, series-of-crimes Breaches-of-Contract in each both different instances respectively are evident in their failures to meet the strict statutory-and-constitutional advocate-client provision-thresholds prerequisites set by law ( contrary to what lawyers of repute would do ) ; and their consequential acts-and-omissions contrary to the Advocates Act Cap 16 and LSK Act Cap 18 which violated-and-infringed my constitutional rights and fundamental-freedoms ( as regards the Practice and Procedure Rules for enforcement of the Bill of Rights under Article 22(3) as read with Article 23 and Article 165 (3) (b) of the Constitution of Kenya concerning jurisdictions to enforce rights and fundamental freedoms that have been denied, violated, infringed or threatened ; aka Mutunga Rules intending to provide a framework which facilitates access to justice for all persons seeking to enforce such provisions ) prejudiced my case and gave rise to their liabilities in Breach-of-Contract out of the losses I've incurred  and continue to incur due to their statutory-and-constitutional faults and short-comings which are the effective causes of my injuries, harms and losses ; and for which I file claims for action for damages as well as costs of the suit subject to the Legal Aid Act 2016 which establishes the National Legal Aid Service with the mandate to:-

  1. Provide legal aid services to indigent, marginalized, and vulnerable persons; 
  2. Establish a legal aid scheme to assist the indigent to access legal aid;
  3. undertake and promote research in legal aid, and access to justice with special reference to the need for legal aid services among indigent persons and marginalized groups;
  4.  administer and manage the Legal Aid Fund; and
  5.  perform such other functions as may be assigned to it under this Act or any other written law
  6.  receive grants, gifts, donations or endowments and make legitimate disbursements;
  7.  any other expenditure necessary for the purposes of this Act.
  8.  mitigate the likely occasion of loss of any right or the person who may suffer damages;
  9. mitigate denial of legal aid which would result in substantial injustice to the applicant;
  10. The  idea  of  legal  aid  is  guaranteed  by  the Constitution through two key provisions. Article 48 recognizes the right of access to justice for all, it provides:

"The State shall ensure access to justice for all persons and, if any fee is required, it shall be reasonable and shall not impede access to justice."

"Article 50 gives the right to a fair hearing."

-Other provisions of the Constitution relevant to the concept of legal aid include the value of social justice under Article 10; provisions on equality before the law under Article 27; provisions on protection of marginalised and vulnerable persons and the requirement under Article 159 that justice shall be done to all irrespective of status. The overarching notion to be derived from these provisions is that it is difficult to achieve justice where one party has to compete with the elaborate machinery and resources available to the opposite party such as in my GoK imposed indigence where the defendant insurance co AMACO-INSURANCE belongs to the incumbent Ruto, thief and ICC-Indicted character ; as read together with the 

(E.):-The Amended Grounds of Appeal Are As Follows:- 

17(a.):-THAT the learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary erred in both law-and-fact when they arbitrarily closed my case-file relying on contradictory and inconsistent interpretation of the law and CoK-2010 ;

(b.):-THAT the learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary erred in both law-and-fact when they intentionally outta procedure misdirected themselves to unprecedentedly reject my cogent and plausible documentary evidence on authorities based on the norm of common law practice aka precedent or case law ;

(c.):-THAT the learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary erred in both law-and-fact when they disregarded-and-failed to consider my authorities authorities based on the norm of common law practise aka precedent or case law evidences ;

(d.):-THAT the learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary erred in both law-and-fact when they irregularly omitted to accord me an opportunity to testify in a fair hearing occasioning thus a subversion-and-obstruction of the course-of-law, due-process and ultimately a premeditated failure-and-defeat of justice that were curable under PART XII–SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS IRREGULAR PROCEEDINGS of the Criminal Procedure Code and as read with its relevant Sections cited herein including:- 380. Proceedings in wrong place. 381. Repealed. 382. Finding or sentence when reversible by reason of error or omission in charge or other proceedings. 383. Distress not illegal for defect in proceedings. 384. Statements irregularly under section 246.

(e.):-THAT the learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary erred in both law-and-fact in the glaring procedural errors-and-omissions they occasioned when they should have displayed more diligence in the preliminary stages ;

(f.):-THAT the learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary erred in both law-and-fact in relying on subsidiary legislation to override the express provisions of Section 77 of the parent statute since it would be an affront to Section 31 (b) of CAP 2 Interpretation and General Provisions Act. ; Judicial bodies have the obligation to interpret the laws in a purposive manner so as to illuminate the spirit of the laws

(g.):-THAT the learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary erred in both law-and-fact and occasioned the miscarriage-of-justice when they did a shoddy-and-shady job in subverting the course-of-law by not carrying-out any substantial investigations to corroborate my allegations-and-claims, and/or curtailing the same, and/or relying on incomplete-investigations with regards to material inconsistencies ;

(h.):-THAT the learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary erred in both law-and-fact by breaching-and-violating Article 159 CoK-2010 which posits that justice must be administered without undue regard to procedural technicalities ;

(i.):- THAT the learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary erred in both law-and-fact when they knowingly, deliberately and intentionally failed to analyze-or-evaluate the overwhelming evidence-on-record in my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 to corroborate and find out the fact that me the Petitioner-Appellant had indeed established a prima-facie case ;

(j):-THAT the learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary erred in both law-and-fact by failing to exercise their discretion well or exhaustively, asa a result of which they reached the perverse, discriminative, biased, political-legal abuse decision  ;

(k.):-

(F.):-Submissions

18.-The Advocates Act, Cap. 16 of the Laws of Kenya is the guiding-statute which expressly provides for the disciplinary processes against Advocates in the country supplemented by the Advocates (Disciplinary Committee) Rules, 1990 vide Legal Notice No. 458 of 1990 and the Advocates (Complaints Commission) (Structure and Procedure) Rules, 2003 under Legal Notice No. 213 of 2003. as well as the CoK-2010 which being the highest law of the land, applies across all State organs, State officers, public officers and all persons whenever any of them applies or interprets the Constitution, enacts, applies or interprets any law or makes or implements public policy decisions.

19.As creatures of the law, the processes governing the disciplinary procedures for Advocates must, therefore, firmly adhere to the Constitution and the law. That is the essence of the rule of law and constitutionalism as espoused in Article 10 of the Constitution. Needless to say, under Article 3, the Constitution obligates every person to respect, uphold and defend the Constitution.

20.-My grievance as the GoK-imposed indigency-pauperism Petitioner-Appellant stems from the contention that the discriminative, political-legal abuse, defective decision was made / issued in violation of mandatory procedure as required under Section 77 as read together with Section 60 of the Advocates Act  and Rule 8 of the Advocates (Disciplinary Committee) Rules thus denying me the opportunity to be heard.

21.-The  Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary unprocedurally in violation of the cited Statutes didn't bother to hold any physical-personal hearings, carry-out any requisite investigations to the latter or invoke the Legal Aid Act 2016 to curtail any logistics faced by me, the GoK-imposed indigent, to enforce the law on its due course and dispense justice. The ACC made the faulty, premature decision on the 18th November, 2022 to CLOSE the FILE suspiciously just as the ODPP Prosecution Counsel Penninah Ngondu Waweru was supposed to be liaising to send-or-avail the documentary evidences with signatures, rubber-stamps, dates and all, of the unscrupulous defendants Owade & Co. Advocates and  Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) ;... evidently for purposes of subverting-and-obstructing the due course of law-and-justice ; and thus the decision was arbitrary, defective, inconclusive, political-legally biased and bad-in-law ;

22.-It's at this point that I inferred the influence of the Executive, ( President William Samoei Ruto who owns the AMACO-INSURANCE Company Ltd at the center of the traffic accident ) ; customarily shielded by the Office of the Attorney General Kenya, from prosecution as was demonstrated by the US's Sanction on former Attorney General Amos Wako, wife and son ( worse in this case because the current Attorney General Justin Muturi is President William Samoei Ruto's political appointee-and-buddy ;... on the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary especially since he'd had my mobile internet cut-off the day he was swearing-in his Cabinet ; and thus did I concede to what the Migori ODPP had bluntly put regarding the State shielding the Executive and his economy-cartel cronies from prosecution (rd. 'Honor among thieves')

23.-It's my case that the mis-informed and premature decision to arbitrarily close the file was made on account of my broad lawsuit touching on the current President Ruto virtue of his AMACO-INSURANCE Company Ltd and adversely mentioned ex-President Uhuru plus former Premier Raila as detailed;

24.-On the foregoing, I the Petitioner-Appellant claim violations-and-infringements of my right to fair administrative action under Article 47 of the Constitution, the right to fair hearing under Article 50(1) of the Constitution besides the many others as demonstrated elsewhere in this Petition-Appeal Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 as Amended ;

25.-It's my appeal that the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary engaged in an alien procedure that resulted in an illegality. I posit that it's now incumbent upon the Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission to serve the unscrupulous defendants Owade & Co. Advocates and  Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates (aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates) with the Petition-Appeal Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 as amended herein supported by the affidavits deposed to by the ACC-Secretary inviting them to respond to the same ;

26.-Administratively, the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary operate as a department in the Office of the Attorney General and Department of Justice. It comprises the Chairman, Commissioner, Commission Secretary, 24 State Counsel , 23 Para-legal staff  and 2 CID officers who work hand in hand towards the realization of its mandate. It contributes significantly in achieving the goals of the National Vision 2030 by enhancing the rule of law and administration of justice. It remains a key player in the realization of National Vision 2030 by administering justice and professional discipline in the practice of law to realize the Vision's aims of creating "a globally competitive and prosperous country with a high quality of life by 2030". It aims to transform Kenya into "a newly-industrialising, middle income country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens in a clean and secure environment".

27.-Section 2 of Article 47 the Fair Administrative Actions Act defines an 'administrative action' and an 'administrator' as follows: -

'administrative action' includes -

(i)   The powers, functions and duties exercised by authorities or quasi-judicial tribunals; or

(ii)  Any act, omission or decision of any person, body or authority that affects the legal rights or interests of any person to whom such action relates;

'administrator' means 'a person who takes an administrative action or who makes an administrative decision'

28.-In Civil Appeal 52 of 2014 Judicial Service Commission vs. Mbalu Mutava & Another (2015) eKLR Court of Appeal addressed itself on Article 47 of the Constitution. The Court held that: -

Article 47(1) marks an important and transformative development of administrative justice for, it not only lays a constitutional foundation for control of the powers of state organs and other administrative bodies, but also entrenches the right to fair administrative action in the Bill of Rights. The right to fair administrative action is a reflection of some of the national values in Article 10 such as the rule of law, human dignity, social justice, good governance, transparency and accountability. The administrative actions of public officers, state organs and other administrative bodies are now subjected by Article 47(1) to the Principle of Constitutionality rather than to the doctrine of ultra vires from which administrative law under the common law was developed.

29.-The South African Constitutional Court in President of the Republic of South Africa and Others vs. South African Rugby Football Union and Others CCT16/98) 2000 (1) SA 1 ring-fenced the Importance of Fair Administrative Action as a Constitutional Right. The Court while referring to Section 33 of the South African Constitution which is similar to Article 47 of the Kenyan Constitution stated as follows: -

Although the right to just administrative action was entrenched in our Constitution in recognition of the importance of the common law governing administrative review, it is not correct to see section 33 as a mere codification of common law principles. The right to just administrative action is now entrenched as a constitutional control over the exercise of power. Principles previously established by the common law will be important though not necessarily decisive, in determining not only the scope of section 33, but also its content. The principal function of section 33 is to regulate conduct of the public administration, and, in particular, to ensure that where action taken by the administration affects or threatens individuals, the procedures followed comply with the constitutional standards of administrative justice. These standards will, of course, be informed by the common law principles developed over decades…

30.-Other authorities on the right include Republic v Fazul Mahamed & 3 Others ex-parte Okiya Omtatah Okoiti [2018] eKLR.; and John Wachiuri T/A Githakwa Graceland & Wandumbi Bar & 50 Others vs The County Government of Nyeri & Another...where the Court emphasized that there are three categories of public law wrongs which are commonly used in cases of this nature.

These are: -

a.  Illegality - Decision makers must understand the law that regulates them. If they fail to follow the law properly, their decision, action or failure to act will be "illegal". Thus, an action or decision may be illegal on the basis that the public body has no power to take that action or decision, or has acted beyond its powers.

b. Fairness - Fairness demands that a public body should never act so unfairly that it amounts to abuse of power. This means that if there are express procedures laid down by legislation that it must follow in order to reach a decision, it must follow them and it must not be in breach of the rules of natural justice. The body must act impartially, there must be fair hearing before a decision is reached.

c.  Irrationality and proportionality - The Courts must intervene to quash a decision if they consider it to be demonstrably unreasonable as to constitute 'irrationality" or 'perversity' on the part of the decision maker. The benchmark decision on this principle of judicial review was made as long ago as 1948 in the celebrated decision of Lord Green in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd vs Wednesbury Corporation:

31.-The Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary's administrative actions-and-omissions were faulty-in-procedure all through and through leading to its resultant arbitrary, impugned decision which was unprecedentedly so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could ever have come to it ;

32.-Speaking to the concept of arbitrariness, the Court of Appeal in Malindi Civil Appeal 56 of 2014 Mtana Lewa v Kahindi Ngala Mwagandi [2015] eKLR made reference to the Black's Law Dictionary 8th Edition that defined arbitrariness in the following manner:- "in it connotes a decision or an action that is based on individual discretion, informed by prejudice or preference, rather than reason or facts."

33.-The High Court in Civil Suit No. 3 of 2006 Kasimu Sharifu Mohamed vs. Timbi Limited [2011] eKLR referred to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary A. S. Horby Sixth Edition Edited by Sally Wehmeiner which defines the term 'arbitrary in the following way: -"the term arbitrary in the ordinary English language means an action or decision not seeming to be based on a reason, system and sometimes, seeming unfair."

34.-The Supreme Court of China in Sharma Transport vs. Government of A. Palso (2002) 2 SCC 188 had the occasion to interrogate the meaning and import of the term 'arbitrarily'. The Court observed as follows: -"The expression 'arbitrarily' means: in an unreasonable manner, as fixed or done capriciously or at pleasure, without adequate determining principle, not founded in the nature of things, non-rational, not done or acting according to reason or judgment, depending on the will alone."

35.-The term 'arbitrariness' had earlier on been defined by the Court (Supreme Court of China) in Shrilekha Vidyarthi vs. State of U.P (1991) 1 SCC 212 when it comprehensively observed as follows:- "The meaning and true import of arbitrariness is more easily visualized than precisely stated or defined. The question, whether an impugned act is arbitrary or not, is ultimately to be answered on the facts and in the circumstances of a given case. An obvious test to apply is to see whether there is any discernible principle emerging from the impugned act and if so, does it satisfy the test of reasonableness. Where a mode is prescribed for doing an act and there is no impediment in following that procedure, performance of the act otherwise and in a manner which does not disclose any discernible principle which is reasonable, may itself attract the vice of arbitrariness. Every State action must be informed by reason and it follows that an act uninformed by reason, is arbitrary. Rule of law contemplates governance by laws and not by humor, whims or caprices of the men to whom the governance is entrusted for the time being. It is trite that be you ever so high, the laws are above you'. This is what men in power must remember, always."

36.-A careful consideration of my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 yields that the  the Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary didn't act neither on the law or on the whole evidence before it but only on selective-evidence disregarding the rest. The reasons for its to ARBITRARILY-DECISION to CLOSE my FILE which's faulted for want of reasonableness and sobriety. Thus my claim that Article 47 including my rights under Article 50 of the Constitution which were violated-and-infringed hold irreproachable as per the abundant evidence demonstrated in my  Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 as Amended herein and thus the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary   acted unfairly and impartially on the complaints.

(G.):-Prayers, Orders, Restitutions, Remedies, Reliefs and/or Legal-Redresses Sought:-

(1.):-A declaration be made that the proceedings-of-the-Arbitrary-DECISION-to-CLOSE-my-File by The Advocates Complaints Commission c/o The Secretary sitting at Cooperative Building, 20th Floor, Nairobi, delivered-and-issued on Friday 18th November, 2022 At 4:02 PM in Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36  was illegal, null and void ab initio as they violated-and-infringed ;
(2.):-A declaration be made that the proceedings entertained by the learned Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary in my Advocates Complaints Commission  Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 were illegal, null and void ab initio as it lacked both substantive-and-procedural basis under Section 60 of the Advocates Act as read together with Section 60A of the Advocates Act and Rule ;
(3.):-A declaration be made that the Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary by proceeding as they did on the Friday 18th November, 2022 At 4:02 PM in Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 breached the law and violated-and-infringed my fundamental-rights and freedoms of me the indigent Petitioner-Appellant by denying me the right to a Fair-Hearing as contemplated under Section 60A of the Advocates Act as read together with Article 47 on administrative-dysfunctions or impunity in the context of administrative-action; plus as read together with Article 50(1) on the provision of every persons' rights to have any dispute that can be resolved by the application of the law decided in a fair and public hearing before a court or an independent and impartial tribunal or body ; as well as read together with Article 50(4) CoK-2010 provision on evidence obtained in a manners violating any rights-or-fundamental freedoms in the Bill of Rights to be excluded if the admission of such evidence would render the trial unfair, or would otherwise be detrimental to the administration of justice.
(4.):-A declaration be made that the ORDER-DECISION of the Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary to CLOSE-my-File as was made, delivered-and-issued on Friday 18th November, 2022 At 4:02 PM in Advocates Complaints Commission Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36  of Erick Otieno Mango v. Owade & Co. Advocates and  Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) was illegal, null and void and of no effect ;
(5.):-An order be made that the Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary's DECISION to CLOSE-my-File as was made, delivered-and-issued on Friday 18th November, 2022 At 4:02 PM in Advocates Complaints Commission Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36  of Erick Otieno Mango v. Owade & Co. Advocates and  Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) be DISCHARGED and SET ASIDE and that the Petition-Complaint as amended be restored ;
(6.):-An order be made that the Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary's bear the costs of this Appeal proceedings and/or that such costs be subjected to the Legal Aid Act 2016 which establishes the National Legal Aid Service ; while those costs in the subordinate Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary be borne by the unscrupulous defendants Owade & Co. Advocates and  Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) and/or as well be subjected to the Legal Aid Act 2016 which establishes the National Legal Aid Service ... wherever instance each applies respectively ; 
(7.):-That the Appellate-Advocates Complaints Commission Re-analyze and Re-evaluate the evidence-in-record afresh and arrive at their own independent findings... in light of the Appeal-Submissions before them as Amended Identify the Issues, Matters and Facts-of-Law for ddetermination and after taking into consideration Principles-of-Law that guide Judicial-Processes / Courts in the determination of those issues and applying the thresholds therein to the rival positions before them, pronounce themselves on those issues ;
        -In that instance I rely on the authorities cited below including:- 
                                                                                                                 (a.):-Okeno vs. Republic [1972] EA 32 
           -where the Court of Appeal set out the duties of a first appellate court as follows:

"An Appellant on a first appeal is entitled to expect the evidence as a whole to be submitted to a fresh and exhaustive examination (Pandya vs. Republic (1957) EA. (336) and the appellate court's own decision on the evidence. The first appellate court must itself weigh conflicting evidence and draw its own conclusion(Shantilal M. Ruwala vs. R. (1957) EA. 570).  It is not the function of a first appellate court merely to scrutinize the evidence to see if there was some evidence to support the lower court's finding and conclusion; it must make its own findings and draw its own conclusions.  Only then can it decide whether the magistrate's findings should be supported.  In doing so, it should make allowance for the fact that the trial court has had the advantage of hearing and seeing the witnesses, see Peters vs. Sunday Post [1958] E.A 424."

                                                                                                                 (b.):- Kiilu & Another vs. Republic [2005]1 KLR 174  

            -where the Court of Appeal stated thus:

1. An Appellant on a first appeal is entitled to expect the evidence as a whole to be submitted to a fresh and exhaustive examination and to the appellate Court's own decision on the evidence.  The first appellate Court must itself weigh conflicting evidence and draw its own conclusions.

2. It is not the function of a first appellate Court merely to scrutinize the evidence to see if there was some evidence to support the lower Court's findings and conclusions; Only then can it decide whether the Magistrate's findings should be supported.  In doing so, it should make allowance for the fact that the trial Court has had the advantage of hearing and seeing the witnesses.

(8.):-That the Petition-Appeal Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 as amended herein be served upon the unscrupulous defendants Owade & Co. Advocates and  Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates ) ;
(9.):-A declaration be made that the Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary were strictly liable for contempt-of-court in my Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 case because of their acts-and-omissions  which interfered with the course of justice in relation to the Advocates Complaints Commission's judicial-proceedings mandates ; contrary to and violating-and-infringing the Contempt of Court Act No 46 of 2016 ; which for purposes of subsection (3), it shall be immaterial whether the interference was not intentional ;
(10.):-That the Appeal in Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 as amended herein be allowed ;
(11):-A declaration be made that the Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary by proceeding as they did on the Friday 18th November, 2022 At 4:02 PM in Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 breached-and-violated
the Public Officer Ethics Act, 2003 (POEA), the Leadership and Integrity Act (LIA), 2011, Chapter Six and Article 73 of the Constitution of Kenya-2010 as read together with Articles 47 on administrative-dysfunctions or impunity in the context of  administrative-action in Article 59(1) (h)(i)(k); for which I seek judicial redress pursuant to Article 3 CoK-2010 ;
(12.):-That pursuant to Rule 25 of the Constitution of Kenya (Protection of Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) Practice and Procedure Rules 2013 The application herein be certified as urgent and service thereof be dispensed with in the first instance.
(13.):-That pursuant to Section 2,3,4(1)(2)(3)(5),5(1) of CAP 78 on 'Witness Summons (Reciprocal Enforcement)' as read together with Sections 64,65(1)(5),69,70 of the Evidence Act CAP 80 ; and as read together with Sections 53(3)(3A),4(d),6,6(A),6(B) and 77 of the Advocates Act CAP 16 on the Advocates Complaints Commission requiring persons to assist it on its duties and Sections 47(1)(2)(3)(a)(b) Article 47 on Fair Administrative Action the Appellate-Advocates Complaints Commission subpoena Penninah Ngondi Wawira, Prosecution Counsel in the ODPP  and thus compel her to produce the documentary evidences detailing the signatures, rubber-stamps, dates and all, of the unscrupulous defendants Owade & Co. Advocates and  Mudeyi Okumu & Company Advocates ( aka Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates );
(14.):-A declaration be made that the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary  failed to consider the issue of admissibility, credibility and relevance of the documents-in-question prayed-for above courtesy of Penninah Ngondi Wawira, Prosecution Counsel in the ODPP as provided under Section 35 (4) of the Evidence Act and thus urge the the Appellate-Advocates Complaints Commissionto to allow the appeal as prayed ;
(15.):-A declaration be made that the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary's lame-excuse decision to knowingly, deliberately, intentionally and erroneously conduct a tele-conversation / hearing / direct-examination lasting five-to-ten minutes as was made on Monday, November 14, 2022instead of a full proper-hearing pursuant to Section 60A of the Advocates Act was impromptu, discriminatory, contemptuous, misleading, misguiding, defective, incompetent, misplaced, bad in law and unreliable since I was even abruptly cut-off by my phone-battery dying ; and was thererfore effectively illegal, null and void.
(17.):-A declaration be made that the Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary proceeding as they did on Monday, November 14, 2022, in conducting a tele-conversation / hearing / direct-examination lasting five-to-ten minutesdisregarded and didn't observe all the Principles of Natural Justice in dealing with me, the seriously aggrieved GoK-imposed indigence Petitioner-Appellant by knowingly, deliberately, intentionally, subverting-and-obstructing to facilitate a full proper hearing pursuant to Section 60A of the Advocates Act at the Commission offices at Cooperative Building, 20th Floor, Nairobi, as earlier envisaged in their letter on Monday, October 31, 2022 at 03:30:53 PM GMT+3
(18.):-A declaration be made that the  Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary's faulty-claim of admitting ONLY Documentary Evidence is Unfounded in-Law for having deliberately failed to consider my case-law / precedent authorities evidence on oral contracts ; and that it was therefore corrupt, shoddy-and-shady, misleading-and-misguiding much as  improper, null and void;
(19.):--A declaration be made that the Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary by proceeding as they did on the Friday 18th November, 2022 At 4:02 PM in Complaint No.-CC/PE/AUG/22/36 didn't accord me a GoK-imposed indigent any administrative-or-procedural fairness in reaching the Impugned Decision, as demonstrated by the evidence that the Respondent Advocates Complaints Commission and its Secretary didn't fully comply with the constitutional-and-legal procedural requirements defining the Hearing-of-Complaints whereby they flouted the procedural aspect of the process, never kept within its confines or allowed me any reasonable time for hearing. 'Twas a faulty procedure all through and through whereby its resultant arbitrary, impugned decision was so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could ever have come to it ;

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