President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Party has written a hard hitting letter to Chief Justice David Maraga.
Maraga has been accused of poor leadership, bias, impunity and double standards.
In a strongly worded three-page letter to Maraga, Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju detailed seven cases where his party believes the Judiciary had shown it was favouring the Opposition, something that is likely to start a war with the Judiciary.
Tuju highlights the alleged failure by the Judiciary to condemn the election boycott by the Opposition NASA a week to the repeat presidential poll, a poll that was born out of an order by the Supreme Court.
When NASA declared there would be no election on October 26, 2017, since it was boycotting the exercise, Jubilee rushed to court to seek a clarification on the standing of the poll. But Tuju feels “the Supreme Court saw nothing urgent about this petition to the court and gave a hearing date of 27th October 2017.”
“A post de facto date. This was like a naughty wink to NASA to continue with their contempt of the Supreme Court,” Tuju lamented.
On October 25, the Supreme Court failed to raise quorum to hear a case from two petitioners who had applied for the stopping of the repeat presidential poll that was just a day in time.
This was even after Chief Justice David Maraga scheduled the hearing of the matter on a day that was already made a holiday reserve by the then acting Interior CS Fred Matiang’i.
This was an open bias by the apex court, Tuju noted.
“To any rational observer, it is the kind of fast-tracking that you can only get in this country when you know people,” Tuju pointed out.
The Opposition disregarded the October 26 election that gave Uhuru Kenyatta green light for the second term in office.
Thereafter, the Supreme Court upheld President Kenyatta’s win blowing off NASA’s hopes to have the October 26 exercise go in futility as it was of August 8, 2017.
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