To future Chief Justice: Please bring back the glory of courts

Supreme Court of Kenya building, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

For the past one week, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has been conducting interviews for a new Chief Justice.

But even as we wait to know who will head the Judiciary, may I take this opportunity to write to the future Chief Justice thus: To you My Lord or Lady, there is an urgent need to bring back the respect and esteem that the courts once had. It is a worrying trend that the courts today are being seen as tools that perpetrate injustice - tools that dance to the tune of the highest bidder.