Defending the Chief Justice is the graviest mistake the opposition is currently doing.
A letter by Jubilee party Secretary-General Raphael Tuju to Chief Justice David Maraga accusing him of favoring the opposition could only get a reply from the CJ himself.However, opposition leaders have come out in defence of the CJ as if accusations that they were being favored were true.
To me their move to defend the CJ is only comparable to when a lion starts blaming a leopard for eating goats yet we all know that both are carnivorous animals who can't spare herbivores.
Whenever Tuju observes how the matter is igniting a debate he remains a happy man and the insults traded at him are nothing to lose.
If the opposition wanted to say anything about the matter they could have come out and warned Mr Tuju to seize from using its name anyhow.
By defending the CJ and the Judiciary at large, they tend to justify that somehow Mr Tuju was right.
The climax of this issue came when a group of leaders from the Abagusii community led by MP Simba Arati demanded an apology from Mr Tuju for disrespecting the Judiciary. This made the matter look tribal.
If the community demanded an apology from Mr Tuju then leaders from both the opposition and Jubilee would have attended the press conference in solidarity with CJ Maraga.
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