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Judge Martha Koome during interviews for the position of Chief Justice at the Supreme court buildings on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]
Immediately the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) announced that Martha Koome was the nominee Chief Justice, her world changed from that of a Court of Appeal judge.
Her phone was busy, engaged with numerous calls such that reaching her took a while. She was yet to process that she had earned a title - Madam Chief Justice - a first for Kenya.
Our conversation was short and she assured all was well for Judiciary and the country. “You are in safe hands and I thank God you prayed for me,” she said yesterday.
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Martha Koome when she appeared before the Judicial Service Commission to interview for the position of Chief Justice at the Supreme Court buildings, yesterday. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]
Court of Appeal Judge Martha Koome has explained why a three-judge bench issued an order suspending a High Court ruling on the eve of Kenya’s repeat election.
High Court Judge George Odunga had declared that all the 271 returning officers and their deputies were illegally appointed just a day before the 2017 repeat presidential election.
However, hours after he had delivered the judgement in favour of activist Khelef Khalifa, Court of Appeal judges who included Koome, Fatuma Sichale and Erastus Githinji suspended the order and the elections went on.