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Dr Willy Mutunga: The man Kenya views as a ‘bastion of a fair and just judicial system’

CJ Willy Munyoki Mutunga.

Public expectations flowed like a fountain when Dr Willy Munyoki Mutunga was appointed Chief Justice two- years-ago.

The former civil rights activist bears the scars of battle in reforming the justice system in Kenya ­— including a bout of detention, police arrest and exile. He was expected to be the panacea for all the ills that had confronted the Judiciary for decades. A local newspaper columnist wrote that many Kenyans saw Mutunga as “the bastion of a fair and just judicial system”. 

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