A MASSACRE BY OPERATION OF LAW!? Ruminations on the determinations of CoA Judges by the Vetting Board
Justices Omollo, Bosire and Nyamu, three of the four CoA Judges found unfit to continue service by the vetting board - Courtesy of Capital FM News. In Peru, the then president Fujimori spearheaded a purge that saw 13 Supreme Court Justices, all members of the constitutional tribunal, all members of the national and district councils of the judiciary and the Attorney General fired. My colleagues tell me that in Georgia they got rig of an entire corps of judges in 1998. In Kenya we had our very own ‘radical surgery’ in 2003 that saw almost if not more than 100 judicial officers sent home for an assortment of allegations ranging from outright corruption, to impartiality to incompetence. A process which regrettably we are not proud about and hence the current Rao-led vetting board. Indeed, different jurisdictions have reacted differently to situations where the judiciary completely lacks credibility. Whether these different actions, some appalling have proved effective in these