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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: audacityofhope on September 05, 2022, 11:21:41 AM
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Politicians trying to influence IEBC and courts
In a speech he gave in February 2019 during the launch of the post-election evaluation report on the 2017 polls, Dr Willy Mutunga, who was the Chief Justice between 2011 and 2016, pointed out the folly of the political class seeking to control the electoral agency and judges—and the undesirable consequences.
“There is no doubt that for a truly independent electoral commission to emerge, the political class needs to drop its practice of capturing and enslaving the commission, completely rendering it incapable of discharging its mandate. The political class wrongly sees itself as ‘owning’ every space, initiative, or decision in the country, a falsely ‘political class as sovereign’ notion that precipitates overreach and disregards the constitutive and operational autonomy of independent institutions such as the IEBC (Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission), and even the Judiciary. The Constitution created independent institutions precisely to cure this mischief—as a necessary bulwark against the highly predictable proclivities and mission creep tendencies of the political class. We cannot create independent institutions then deny them that independence through bullying by the political class. And when those institutions fail because of such political infiltration, we turn around and blame them — and disband them.”
In another speech delivered in Vienna, Austria, in July 2019, Dr Mutunga spoke of the criticism towards the Supreme Court in regard to the 2017 General Election. “It is undeniable that all judges of the Supreme Court [were] under political attacks [after] four of their colleagues nullified the election of the current President and his deputy in 2017.
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/-not-even-solomon-would-impress-both-sides-says-willy-mutunga-3936450
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Today, only an abridged version. Full judgement in 21 days.
Introduction:
CJ Koome: IEBC lacks trust.
All elections except 2002 have been contested.
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