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CJ Nominee Martha Koome was ‘pushed’ to the top, did not shine during JSC interviews, to play ball 2022? TOXIC POLITICS AND ETHNIC SUSPICIONS BLUR JUSTICE MARTHA KOOME’S WELL-DESERVED NOMINATION AS KENYA’S FIRST FEMALE CHIEF JUSTICE By Dr Vincent O. Ongore W hen the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) sat last week and the week before under the temporary chairmans...

Renovated Supreme Court Cells Where Raila Was Detained [PHOTOS] ODM leader Raila Odinga addressing the media outside the Supreme Court building in 2017 File The Judiciary partnered with the National Museums of Kenya to turn the Supreme Court basement, where a number of Kenyan politicians were locked up, into a museum. The cells inside the basement served as detention areas for political prisoners like George Anyona, Raila Odinga, Maina wa Kinyati,cEdward Oyugi, Willy Mutunga, Koigi Wamwere and...

THE STANDARD NAIROBI Court of Appeal president William Ouko is interviewed for the position of Chief Justice at the Supreme Court, Nairobi on Wednesday,April 21,21. [Collins Kweyu, Standard] Court of Appeal President Justice William Ouko’s long service in the Judiciary became the centre of focus in his quest to become the country’s next Chief Justice with questions over his failure to initiate reforms. Justice Ouko was also put to task for being a police reservist for ten years rising to th...

THE STANDARD KENYA Chief Justice Kitili Mwendwa [left] being sworn in by President Kenyatta as AG Charles Njonjo looks on in July 1968 [Courtesy] An idea whose time has come is unstoppable. A few weeks before July 1968, when this picture was taken, nobody would have thought that Kitili Maluki Mwendwa, 39, would be the first African Chief Justice. This became a reality after the acting Chief Justice Arthur Denis Farrel, rubbed President Jomo Kenyatta the wrong way. His crime was reducing the one...

THE STANDARD KENYA Justice Nduma Nderi is interviewed at the Supreme court building on April 19, 2021 by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) for the position of Chief Justice. [Collins Kweyu,standard] The Supreme Court has never settled on how presidential election results should be relayed, Justice Nduma Nderi argues. The Labour Court judge yesterday said two different decisions, one on 2017 election by former Chief Justice David Maraga-led bench and in 2013 by his predecessor Willy Mutunga,...

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JSC Lays Ground for Murgor Clash With DCJ Mwilu, Ngatia  15 April 2021 - 7:08 pm From left to right: Senior counsel Philip Murgor, Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu and Senior Counsel Fred Ngatia. File The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) dismissed a letter by Senior Counsel Philip Murgor seeking to bar Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu from sitting in the ongoing interviews for candidates seeking for the Chief Justice position. The letter dated Thursday, April 15,  effectively lay ...

Willy Mutunga’s rise as ‘social justice hero’ Friday April 16 2021 The book weaves a load of Kenyan colonial and post-colonial history into Willy’s story.  Willy is one of those accused and detained along with activists like Maina wa Kinyatti, Koigi wa Wamere, Alamin Mazrui, and following the failed coup attempt in August 1982, Raila Odinga. Given that Mazrui is still writing for a youthful audience, she doesn’t go into detail about the torturous life in detention. You can tell witho...

THE STANDARD KENYA Justice David Njagi Marete arrives at the Supreme Court building to be interviewed for the position of Chief Justice.[Collins Kweyu, Standard] Justice David Njagi Marete has dismissed claims that the Judiciary is under siege from external forces. Marete who was appearing before the Judicial Service Commission vetting panel for the position of Chief Justice said for the 35 years he has been in the legal profession, he has not seen any external forces stumbling on the independe...

THE STANDARD KENYA I will not bring in any new agenda to the Judiciary, High Court Judge Said Chitembwe and candidate for Chief Justice position has told the Judicial Service Commission. Justice Chitembwe ( pictured above) was responding to Acting Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu who wanted to know what transformation he would bring to the Judiciary as the incoming Chief Justice. Chitembwe replied he would seek to build on what his predecessors David Maraga and Willy Mutunga did when they held t...