Supreme Court Judge Jackton Ojwang' could face a tribunal constituted by President Uhuru Kenyatta following his decision to defy Judicial Service Commission, reports the Nation.
Ojwang' was summoned along with his colleagues Ibrahim Mohammed and Njoki Ndung'u to answer to bribery allegations with Mr Ojwang facing two accounts.
In the first instance, he is accused of making a favourable judgment for Migori Governor Okoth Obado who was faced by a scandal in the sugar board. In return, it's alleged, Ojwang' had the county government making a road to his private residence in Migori.
Former LSK CEO Mr Apollo Mboya had also petitioned JSC over the ruling Mr Ojwang' made with the two judges even after being informed of another pending matter before the court.
And until now, Ojwang' has refused to be grilled by his employer, JSC, citing claims that he was unfairly being targeted for wrongs he had not done.
“Instead of appearing to clear his name he refers to us as service providers of unschooled people,” said a commissioner, who requested not to be named.
Justice Ojwang, who has been at loggerheads with JSC commissioners, accuses them of acting with malice against him.
“From the whole context of this matter and from the full context of the ill-intent against me such as is quite evident, I will not be appearing before the well-known committee members of the Judicial Service Commission,” Justice Ojwang wrote on March 15.
In his letter, the judge accuses the commission of arranging with senior police officers and surveyors to travel to his residence near Migori town “to take photographs of the road network, showing major and the minor roads.”
Upon the formation of the tribunal, Ojwang' will be compelled to answer the accusations and after which, a process of kicking him out of the judiciary will be initiated.