December 5, 1989: A lawyer representing the Kenya Times Media Trust Limited in a case filed in the High Court by Prof Wangari Maathai (left) urges the court to strike out Prof Maathai’s application for the injunction. Prof Maathai is seeking to bar the construction of a 60-storey complex by KTMT at Nairobi’s Uhuru Park. Mr. George Oraro claimed that Prof Maathai’s plaint supporting her application for a permanent injunction restraining the Kenya Times Media Trust from building the complex did not have any validity at all. He termed it as “frivolous and incompetent.” And he exhorted the court to strike it out. The advocate was making his submissions after a Nairobi resident judge, Justice Norbury Dugdale, made a ruling allowing him to make his preliminary objection to Prof Maathai’s application before the plaintiff could be heard. Dr Ooko Ombaka (right), for the plaintiff (Prof Maathai), had argued that his client’s application should be heard first before Mr. Oraro could object to it. Also in the photo is lawyers Mr. Mohamed Nyaoga and Mr. Gitobu Imanyara.
