ANTICIPATORY BAILNow 33 years later, Kiambu Principal Magistrate Bryan Khaemba reignited the debate last Friday after he issued a similar anticipatory bail to Governor Ferdinand Waititu and Kiambu County Finance Chief Officer Faith Njeri Harrison. Lawyer Omwanza Ombati argued that the magistrate had broken new ground in jurisprudence by granting an anticipatory bail to Governor Waititu. The magistrate court is based in Kiambu with a perception that he might be known to the wheeler-dealers of the county. I thought this was an exclusive remit of the superior courts (High Court, Court of Appeal or Supreme Court),” lawyer Omwanza Ombati said on social media, drawing a heated debate over the comment. In 2015, he was re-elected as the secretary general of the Kenya Magistrates and Judges Association without having campaigned for the seat.

Source: Daily Nation May 26, 2019 09:56 UTC