Friday, June 4, 2021 - Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) chairman, John Mbadi, has said President Uhuru Kenyatta had no powers to reject six Judges who had been recommended for appointment by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). In a Gazette notice, Uhuru appointed 34 judges but left six among them Justices Joel Ngugi and George Odunga. In…
President William Ruto plans to increase the Judiciary budget by an additional Sh3 billion for the next five years in a bid to make courts financially independent.
He said President Kenyatta’s move to gazette the names of the judges two years later, speaks to an exercise of power that ‘is egregious, reckless and insensitive’.