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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 chairmanship (I d on’t know if chairpersonship or chairwomanship would apply here) of former Kenyatta Univ...

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 many others. The facility located in the Eastern wing of the Supreme Court Building basement is one...

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 the rank of an inspector at a time when he was the Registrar of the High Court, and for not doing enou...

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-year jail term handed over to bearded Bildad Kaggia to six months. Kaggia, who was the MP for Kanda...

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, have not yet resolved how the tally should be transmitted from the polling station to the tallying ...