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…Akhaabi has conceded and, rightly in my view, that there has been inordinate delay.…

…On the material before me, I find that there has been inordinate delay which has not been sufficiently or satisfactorily accounted for.…

…It is common ground that there has been an inordinate delay of well nigh three years in instituting the appeal. The fact of the delay has been placed squarely at the door of the applicant's counsel.…

…No explanation or record has been given from this inordinate delay. The application fails and is dismissed with costs. Dated and delivered at Nairobi this 11th day of June, 1997. A.A. LAKHA .................…

…Nor do I think, having regard to the inordinate delay already occasioned, that this is a fit and proper case for the exercise of my discretion which I decline to exercise.…

…WAINAINA (NO 3) [1982] KLR 33, LAW, J.A held that – “An advocate’s bona fide mistake, but not inordinate delay on the advocate’s part, may amount to sufficient cause …… The only delay was due to the advocate’s bona fide but…