Top news items in Kenya's major media outlets

NAIROBI, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The following are the news highlights in Kenya's major media outlets on Saturday.

-- Kenyan courts on Friday issued verdicts for several election petitions as the judiciary worked hard to clear the 2017 poll disputes. Eight MPs and two governors survived the petitions filed by their rivals in the August 8 2017 polls with the judges slapping the petitioners with hefty bills of the cases.

Some MPs lost their seats and promised to appeal the cases at a higher court. For the petitions that were dismissed, the judges noted that the petitioners failed to prove claims of vote rigging and other malpractices as they had alleged while filing the cases. (Saturday Nation)

-- Opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga has linked ruling party Jubilee of masterminding a radical bill that proposes the creation of a powerful and a ceremonial president who serves for single seven-year term. (The Star)

-- Kenya's pending bills in legal costs could shoot to 12 billion U.S. dollars if all the cases lodged against the government are determined. (Standard on Saturday) Enditem