Supreme Court judges were panicky after they annulled Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential victory in 2017, a new book has said.
The book, written by International Commission of Jurists and Journalists For Justice, details the intimidation the bench went through after making the landmark ruling.
Top on the fears was that some members of the bench had been marked for their stand and contributions during deliberations on whether to overturn the victory or dismiss the petition.
This was after it emerged that ‘the powers that be’ were monitoring and listening to what every judge was saying live during their retreat to write the judgment.
The Standard reported that it was in the backdrop of these developments that the President of the Supreme Court David Maraga made frantic calls to the police to have the judges given more security.
“The book indicates that the police even ignored calls from judges, specifically Maraga, who intended to request additional security for the six,” the paper reported.
It was not clear who ‘the police’ referred to in this case.
The apex court’s decision, a first one in Africa, had raised tension both within the political arena and in the corridors of justice.