The office would receive and investigate complaints against judges and judicial officers, reporting annually to the Judicial Service Commission and the Senate. In Kenya, judges cannot be removed from office on a whim. By the time it wound up, it had removed four Court of Appeal judges and eight from the High Court. The governor of the city’s county had allegedly just delivered a $2 million bribe to one of the country’s seven Supreme Court judges to secure a judgment that would save him from a by-election. When Mwai Kibaki became President, political pressure mounted on Chief Justice Bernard Chunga and High Court Judge Samuel Oguk to resign in 2003, followed by the ‘radical surgery’.

Source: Standard Digital May 16, 2021 12:00 UTC