"Baba! Baba!" the men cried, screaming out the nickname of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga every bit they rolled close inward the middle of a road, clutching a movement poster with his painting demo on it.
Moments before a homo inward a total gorilla adapt zipped past times on a motorbike, standing tall, hooting the horn together with waving every bit people lining the route cheered him on.
As the shocking intelligence spread that the Supreme Court had decided to annul the termination of the August 8 presidential election together with social club a fresh vote inside threescore days, scenes of jubilation erupted alongside opposition supporters across the Kenyan capital.
Crowds of dancing, singing opposition supporters converged on Olympic Junction inward Kibera, a teeming shantytown inward the upper-case missive of the alphabet Nairobi together with a stronghold of Odinga together with his National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition.
They waved leafy branches, blew whistles, shouted, cried, wept together with sang celebrating the Supreme Court's unprecedented decision.
The homo of the hour, at to the lowest degree hither inward Kibera, was non together with therefore much Odinga but David Maraga, a taciturn lawyer with a perpetually amused facial expression -- together with the country's main justice, or CJ.
"He's an African hero!" said Joseph Omullo, an unemployed 25-year-old college graduate alongside the crowd who was shouting to brand himself heard.
"The CJ is exemplary!" he said. "All nosotros wanted was justice to hold out served."
Nearby an sometime adult woman did a shuffle dance, weeping together with whooping past times turns every bit she held a five-day-old paper inward a higher house her head, a painting demo of Maraga on the cover.
"This is the commence fourth dimension we've seen justice inward Kenya!" a homo cried out.
- 'Justice has been done!' -
Esther Osimbo, a 33-year-old fishwife, strode towards the pump of the crowd. "It is historic. Maraga is a great, slap-up man," she said adding, with a Federal Reserve notation of regret, that he is married.
A determination to overturn the consequence of the presidential vote, annulling President Uhuru Kenyatta's 54 portion victory, is unprecedented inward Africa together with rare inward the world.
In Republic of Kenya it took many past times surprise every bit sense has taught that courts are routinely subservient to the president.
"In the whole world, all eyes were on this Supreme Court together with the estimate did the correct thing," said 36-year-old Frederick Oyieng, a black watchman, who was looking somewhat dazed.
"It was a surprise because the tendency inward justice inward Republic of Kenya is non good, but this fourth dimension justice has been done," said 39-year-old accountancy pupil Donna Abongo.
"Kudos to the judges!"
Similar scenes played out elsewhere inward Nairobi every bit good every bit inward the western urban marrow of Kisumu where people danced through the streets, sweeping the roads with branches together with crying out "Uhuru must go!"
"They bring stolen elections for together with therefore long," said Lynette Akello, a fishmonger, referring to Odinga's claim that he has been cheated inward 3 consecutive elections.
"This is justice for Baba.”
AFP