Chief Justice David Maraga washed the dirty linen in public, exposing the goings on between the two arms of government. The Executive, on the other hand, claims to have intelligence on the conduct of some of the 41 proposed judges. Pre-emptively, the motivation of the Executive is to accumulate political power through nation and state building. The role of Parliament is to tame that political power through oversight, while the role of the Judiciary is to arbitrate that taming through legal interpretation. However, such information is usually not admissible in a court of law as evidence due to the very nature of how it is obtained.

Source: The Star June 12, 2020 02:11 UTC