After Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu dropped his ouster petition against Chief Justice David Maraga, two other petitions have been filed with the Judicial Service Commission seeking the investigation and removal from office of two Supreme Court judges, Deputy Chief Justice (DCJ) Philomena Mwilu and Justice Isaac Lenaola over alleged gross misconduct.
The two were among four Supreme Court judges who overturned President Uhuru Kenyatta’s win in the August 8th General Elections citing irregularities and technicalities that they ruled affected the entire election process.
The petition lodged by Derrick Malika Ngumu, the executive director of the Mombasa-based Angaza Empowerment Network, claims that DCJ Philomena Mwilu was in contact with Busia Senator Amos Wako, a counsel on record for Raila Odinga, and James Orengo, the lead counsel for the opposition NASA through his sister Margaret Orengo’s phone.
He also alleges that Mwilu held lengthy meeting with Senator Wako on August 17th, 2017 , a day before NASA filed the petition at the Supreme Court.
The petitioner also alleges the topic of conversation centered on the NASA presidential petition.
By failing to disclose to the court the alleged meetings and telephone communication, Malik argues that DCJ Mwilu brings into doubt her impartiality, integrity, independence and exposes judicial misconduct on her part which contravenes “many sections of the Judicial Code of Conduct.”
On the other hand, Justice Isaac Lenaola is accused of holding meetings with Steve Mwenesi, a representative of the Law Society of Kenya, an interested party in the NASA petition.
Malik alleges that Justice Lenaola held a meeting Mwenesi outside the precincts of the court while the hearing of the petition was underway at the Supreme Court. He further claims that Justice Lenaola communicated with NASA principal Moses Wetangula through his son Emmanuel Wetangula and Orange Democratic’s Director of Communication Philip Etale, including holding physical meetings with them while the NASA case was ongoing.
Last week, Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu lodged a petition at the JSC in bid to remove Chief Justice David Maraga from office for alleged orchestration of a judicial coup, but he later withdrew it following instructions by President Uhuru.
Four Supreme Court judges including Chief Justice David Maraga, Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu, Justice Isaac Lenaola and Justice Smokin Wanjala invalidated President Kenyatta’s win. Justices Njoki Ndung’u and Jacktone Ojwang dissented.
Okay Lenola and Mwilu, now…
Okay Lenola and Mwilu, now who committed illegalities and irregularities in their decisions. You will need to defend yourselves against these accusations, otherwise you will be removed from the bench. We know NASA was originally categorical of the courts being not an option. So, did Mwilu, Lenola, Maraga, and Wanjala convince NASA to come to court with a guarantee of victory? Now it begs the question.
JUSTICES Mwilu and Lenola…
JUSTICES Mwilu and Lenola are not the issue here, jubilee and its operatives corrupted the IEBC officers and consequently the electioneering itself, so if you are sure of your win, go and win it on oct. 17th.Otherwise stop the drama.
The Supreme Court judgement…
The Supreme Court judgement is A PROCESS, NOT AN EVENT! SO IF THE PROCESS OF FILING THE PETITION AND ARRIVING AT THE JUDGEMENT WAS FLAWED, THEN THE PETITION AND THE JUDGEMENT ARE NULL AND VOID AND THERE WAS NO PETITION AND NO JUDGEMENT!!!! UHURU WON THE AUGUST 8TH ELECTION FAIR AND SQUARE! HE SHOULD BE SWORN IN WITHOUT FURTHER DRAMA
@C…
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Another Joseph Goebbels of the jubilee alliance. Joseph was the propaganda minister in Adolph Hitler’s regime.
This jubilee sychophants…
This jubilee sychophants mume rukwa na akili.If you were indeed fair or at least objective why did you not investigate all the judges including those who ruled in your favor.Maraga is not going to change the judgement because of your threats or intimidating tactics.The real question is how will you deal with your deflated egos should you not get your way on the 17th of October .Wake up and smell the coffee things have changed si kama vile mlikuwa mumezoea.
What goes around comes…
What goes around comes around. This turn of events looks exactly as the election petition NASA filed.
Consider the following competing claims;
Elections were rigged vs The outcome of SC case was compromised.
Systems were hacked to rig elections vs Communication to that compromised the outcome of case was intercepted.
NASA did not want to file petition initially vs JP did not want petitions filed against judges.
Technology was the center piece of NASA petition to SC vs Mobile technology/surveillance is the center piece of new petition to JSC.
The election case was admitted on basis of ” give us the access to IEBC servers” vs This conduct case should be admitted on basis of “give us the access to MAC, IP, ISP addresses,SIMs etc”
Irregularities and illegalities were cited to nullify election vs alleged misconduct will be cited to bench the affected judges.
Election is a process and not an event vs justice/judgement is a process not an event.
My take on these parallels is, these two petitions are intertwined and conjoined and to safely separate the two requires delicate and lengthy operation.
Let them b investigated…
Let them b investigated immediately n they should step aside n Supreme Court shouldn’t realese their judgement til they r investigated.If it’s true such meeting happened then outrightly Uhuru should b sweared immediately?