Senior Counsel Ahmednassir Abdullahi has suffered a major setback after the Supreme Court on Thursday permanently barred him from appearing before it over his consistent disparaging remarks made against the institution and its judges on various media platforms.

The unanimous ban issued by the seven judge bench of the Apex Court also applies to his law firm including his employees. His law firm will now not be filing cases before the Supreme Court and the decision will also affect the lawyer’s client list and their respective cases.

In a letter to Ahmednassir this evening, the Supreme Court judges led by Chief Justice Martha Koome, her Deputy Philomena Mwilu and Justices Mohamed Ibrahim, Smokin Wanjala, Njoki Ndungu, Isaac Lenaola and William Ouko said it took the decision due to the Senior Counsel’s attacks which seek to destroy the individual judges’ reputation.

“In view of the foregoing, it is the decision of this Court, that henceforth and from the date of this Communication, you shall have no audience before the Court, either by yourself, through an employee of your law firm, or any other person holding brief for you, or acting pursuant to your instructions. Much as this decision is bound to affect those who may have instructed you to represent them before the Court, it is untenable that you would seek justice in the very institution and before the very Judges, whose reputation and integrity you never tire in assaulting,” the Supreme Court Registrar wrote in the letter to the Senior Counsel.

The Supreme Court said it took the decision since the lawyer has over the years engaged in a campaign to scandalize and ridicule the top court in the country court.

"Over the years, you have relentlessly and unabashedly conducted a campaign in the broadcast, print and social media aimed at scandalizing, ridiculing and out- rightly denigrating this Court. Through social media posts, media interviews and write-ups, you have accused the Court either in its constitutive persona, or individual membership, of acts of corruption, incompetence and outright bribery. This, you have done with reckless abandon, paying scant regard to the reputations of those who tirelessly serve on the Court in accordance with their Oath of Office, " the letter states in part the Registrar of the Supreme Court is signed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court Letizia Wachira.