On 10 July 2023, Justice Mugure Thande of Kenya's High Court declined to set aside orders suspending the Finance Act 2023 and forwarded the case to Chief Justice Martha Koome, who will appoint a three-judge bench to determine the constitutionality of the Act. As previously reported, the High Court temporarily suspended the operationalization (implementation) of the Finance Act 2023 pending a case filed in court by Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah. It was expected that a substantive ruling would b…