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| Law Society of Kenya chairman Eric Mutua, with some council members at a past press conference. The society called for the Supreme Court to be disbanded. |
A falling-out between the Judicial Service Commission and three judges of the Supreme Court has deepened, with lawyers calling for the court to be disbanded.
Law Society of Kenya chairman Eric Mutua, in statement, said that the time has come for the country to engage in debate on whether it still needs the Supreme Court or it should be disbanded.
“Through constitutional amendment, the role of the Supreme Court may be performed by judges selected from the Court of Appeal. Such amendment will benefit the country in cutting down unnecessary expenditure,” said Mr Mutua.
He added that the society is fully supporting a petition filed by its chief executive officer Apollo Mboya to remove judges Jackton Ojwang, Mohammed Ibrahim and Njoki Ndung’u from the Supreme Court over alleged misconduct and boycott of duty.
Mr Mboya wants the commission to declare the three judges unfit to continue serving because, he says, they have breached their oath of office, and initiate the process of removing them from the Judiciary.
The LSK chief executive also presented a list of 21 cases that he claimed had stalled because the three judges had decided to abscond duty leading to a quorum hitch as the remaining three could not constitute a full bench.
