Opinion
All judges must be shown the door for a new dawn
Posted Friday, November 27 2009 at 13:36
History has taught us that the Kenyan Judiciary is irredeemable. There are about 10 excellent judges in the High Court and one or two in the Court of Appeal that deserve a chance to serve in the new dispensation. But even these ones, and with profound apology to them, and in order to have a clean break and for the sake of this nation, the new constitution must show them the door. All of them.
Ahmednasir is a former chairman of the Law Society of Kenya.ahmednasir@ahmedabdi.com
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Submitted by bitukenyaPosted November 29, 2009 07:36 AM
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Submitted by mza
You offer no solution. You are quick to show people the door but fail to devise a formula through which others will be selected. You distrust everybody including PM and the president yet they have the people's mandate. I do not doubt there are bad eggs in the judiciary. But I do not share your fatalistic streak.
Posted November 29, 2009 01:14 AM
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With all due respect to Ahmednasir.In this article he comes off as a petulant football baying for the coache's blood just because his team lost a game. Logically, I dont think there are any good or bad judges per se, It all trickles down to functioning systems. Even the best angel installed as a judge in the current dispensation will fall below par. What Kenya needs in all the three arms of governance is a working system that is well policed by all quarters; media, public scrutiny and duly enforced rule of law...not mass sacking of judges/magistrates.