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Taxpayers to lose Sh25 million in recruitment of new judges

Chief justice David Maraga.

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) gobbled approximately Sh25 million to hire the 41 judges who have since been rejected by President Uhuru Kenyatta, leading to a protracted court battle.

And it is now emerging that President Kenyatta struck a deal with JSC in 2015 to keep his hands off its nominees, a deal he seems to have reneged in revelations made in court this week.

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