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MOMBASA: The judiciary is on the spot, yet again, over rising cases of judges and magistrates bribery claims despite two corruption-related purge in a span of 12 years.
On Monday, Chief Justice Dr Willy Mutunga torched the debate on corruption in the judiciary when he openly admitted during judges' colloquium in Mombasa that the vice had seeped back into the judiciary.
Senior Lawyers now concur with the CJ and say there was need for a more vicious vetting exercise to root out corrupt judges and magistrates in or what one of them describe as "potent prescription that can cure the scourge".
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