Chief Justice David Maraga [PHOTO/Courtesy]
Chief Justice David Maraga has denied claims by the Jubilee Party leadership that he is interfering with the Judiciary to sabotage government operations.
Speaking after Jubilee leaders accused him of siding with NASA to stop ballot printing by the IEBC, Maraga said he respects the independence of judges and that his words were quoted out of context.
“At no time did I ask the IEBC not to proceed with ballot printing, contrary to statements by Deputy President William Ruto and other politicians at the Baringo rally,” he said in a statement sent to newsrooms on Sunday night.
He claimed that there could be persons responsible for intentionally interpreting his speech out of context.
On the contrary, he said, “the comments I made in Mombasa and elsewhere, which were either deliberately or inadvertently taken out of context, were in reference to the courts’ efforts to expeditiously clear the numerous petitions arising from the party primaries in order not to inconvenience the printing of ballot papers.”