After the recent acquittal of the previously charged gang due to LACK OF EVIDENCE…
POLICE ARREST 22 Chinese, 19 Taiwanese nationals found setting up high tech communications equipment in a house in Runda,Nairobi.
TUTAKAMULIWA KAMU KAMU
In the 5 years of Mutunga led judiciary little gains/change have been felt in the court. They get almost 20 times more on budget 20 billion. Cases still take years to conclude, files still disappear and small courts like Kibera is openly corrupt upto the dock. Corruption is still rampant, JSC members are cutting deals left,right & centre. Some JSC members have become so powerful that they question all judges and magistrate rulings openly and also in their social media accounts. They have become prefects in and out of the court deciding for everyone what is right or wrong. Their is a serious infighting between judges/magistrate and members of JSC over interference which they claim is worse since Kanu days. Mutunga didn’t know how to set aside his activism role and led the judiciary. When shollei disagreed with JSC over a deal gone bad, he took sides and heard no evil saw no evil. This time lets concentrate more on the leadership skills and experience of candidates in picking his successor such as CBK Gov. Njoroge.
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On this one the courts were not the problem…it’s the police key witness who said that after forensic analysis on the seized equipment there was no evidence that the suspects were engaging in criminal activity…the magistrate has no option but to free them…I had posted this earlier…shida ni polisi na DPP sio Koti
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True but our courts are still the same, vetting only slowed the rot but its back with a bang and more.
True but if EACC , DPP and CID conspire to bring a weak case with insufficient evidence…the defense will tear it apart…the court can only prosecute on the weight of the evidence presented
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Problem is that we still have a system where a police constable with a C from Kiganjo is the prosecutor, while the arresting officers wouldn’t know how to turn on a laptop if you asked them to.
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When this constitution was drafted it assumed that the judiciary is only influenced by executive so they created the JSC and independent CJ which is good but none of them is accountable to any other body other than themselves. They are untouchable in Kenya. Kenyan’s being ourselves, the same yesterday activists are now using their influence for themselves and a few others. So instead of one all encompassing “God” we got several “gods”
Justice Tonui and Rawal guilt-innocence aside, there biggest mistake was seniority in Supreme Court. The same influence peddlers in JSC who have amassed wealth, control and clients by virtue of their position know that with the pending retirement of CJ that the gray train is over. If CJ retires Rawal would most likely take his place after vetting and be deputize by Tonui. Those two and one/two others aren’t at the best of terms with the “prefect influence peddlers”. They wouldn’t allow that, all of a sudden their retirement age take prominence and they are asked to retire in time. I agree with that at 70 years it is not negotiable as per the constitution. When they go to court to challenge it, then it narrows the gap for the peddlers to replace them. So Tonui corruption case that had been pending at CJ office for 2 years gets urgency and in one affidavit they try to not only push his hand into retire but name 3 more judges to finish all of them with one swoop. Judges, magistrates and register know the real reason why judiciary is in civil war. Influence peddling. The current corrupt cases point to that fact. One of the prominent JSC members quotes $500,000, 50 million to represent the client and guarantees he/she will win. They will get there own judge, have all inconvenience injunctions to go their way, investigations will not be an issue etc. After taking advice from lawyers, friends, family and most importantly fellow Judges. Tonui decided to have a public hearing so that he can try give his side publicly and also dwell on the stealth fighting he has received by the influence peddlers. Thats enough for today.
chinese ni bigwigs hii mtaa
@spear, true or not, your posts would be great as a thread of their own. It would create discussion and dismissal of all kind. We, the elders, sanction this rant
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UMENENA KAKA…
PEWA UPENDACHO NITALIPA
This is partly true but I think most of the time they deliberately present weak cases after receiving bribes from accused parties.
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