Kiambu County Women Rep Ann Nyokabi has suggested that in future, all judges who undertake the task of administering justice that end up having serious implications in national security, should be held personally responsible for the same.
She said that of late, some members of the judiciary were in the habit of imposing crazy rulings in a manner that suggested that they were playing politics with people’s lives.
“Well, a verdict may be perfectly legal. But what social interest will it serve if its effect causes a nationwide riot in which people lose lives and property? The pertinent issue here is how many judgments have been influenced or subverted courtesy of political inclinations by our judges?,” said Nyokabi.
She argued that any judge who was properly educated on the dialectics of society would not base their verdicts on the letter of the law alone.
She added that social tranquility must always take precedence over all statutory provisions for those provisions are its servants.
Consequently, Nyokabi said that CORD leaders who marshalled their supporters into demonstration that led to destruction of property or loss of innocent lives should also bear the cost of the same.
“No one is opposed to their (CORD) picketing or demonstrations, but the leaders should be held fully responsible for any destruction of property and made to pay for it. There has never been any peaceful demonstrations where the protesters carry stones with them and go burning and destroying property,” Nyokabi said.