COURT CALLS FOR THE REINSTAMENT OF LIMURU LADY GOLFERS
Limuru lady golfers have a chart with their lawyer Phillip Murgor.
By CORRESPONDENT
The gender battle that was shrouding the Limuru Golf Club ended Wednesday when a constitutional court criticised the male-dominated board of governors for attempting to sideline their women counterparts.
According to the Daily Nation Justice Mumbi Ngugi declared a proposed bylaw that was to bar women from voting illegal.
She said private members’ clubs, businesses and individuals were bound by the constitution.
She has also ordered the club directors to pay cost of the litigation individually.
The judge ordered three lady golfers who had been kicked out reinstated.
“The case arose out of the unconstitutionality of the proposed bylaw which is now rendered void and thereby all processes that followed quashed,” she said.
The judge observed that the bylaw expressed discriminated against, and violated fundamental rights of expression as it was restricting a certain section of its club membership.
“A resolution to exclude female members in the golf committee was null and void,” the judge said and ordered that the expelled members be reinstated with all the attendant benefits.”