Azimio La Umoja spokesperson professor Makau Mutua has suggested to the Kenya Kwanza government on how to stop alleged corruption in the Judiciary.
In a statement on Wednesday, January 3, Mutua noted that corruption will come to an end if the government sacks all corrupt officials including Judges, lawyers, and other government officials.
“Judges don’t do corruption alone. It’s a web and an ecosystem of corruption involving ministers and senior civil servants, lawyers, legislators, and businesspeople.
“The whole system must be uprooted — by sacking every corrupt official — to defeat corruption in the judiciary,” Mutua stated.
According to Mutua the answer to a corrupt judiciary isn’t defiance of court orders.
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“It’s comprehensive reform of the judiciary — removing corrupt judges, sacking/removing corrupt politicians/civil servants, dismantling colluding cartels in the bar, and jailing corrupt businesspersons,” he added in a statement posted on his X account.
His remarks emerged after President William Ruto attacked judicial officers for allegedly working with cartels to sabotage his development agenda for the country.
“I want to announce here that a few people with vested interests who are beneficiaries of corruption in NHIF are now ganging up with corrupt judicial officers to stall reforms so that fake hospital claims will continue, I want to assure you that this will not happen in Kenya again and we will stop it,” stated President Ruto.
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“We are a democracy, we will protect the independence of the judiciary. What we will not allow is judicial tyranny and judicial impunity,” he added.
The President’s remarks on the Judiciary triggered a national uproar, as opposition leaders, Law Society of Kenya, Judicial Service Commission criticize his utterances.
For instance, LSK called on its members to hold peaceful protests next week in support of the judiciary.
At the same time, Chief Justice Martha Koome told off President Ruto while urging judges to ignore the threats and focus on service delivery.
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“The Commission wishes to draw the attention of State and Public Officers to the fact that the Constitution places positive duties on the State to ensure respect for the law and adherence to the law by providing citizens with effective mechanisms for resolving disputes between themselves and between them and the State.
“Where a citizen obtains a court order against the State and that court order is deliberately ignored or disobeyed by State officials, the right of access to justice is undermined because it fatally attacks the effectiveness of the legal system on which ordinary citizens rely to have their rights and legal duties enforced,” Koome stated.
