Key questions to ask in Uhuru’s never-ending attack on the Judiciary

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Chief Justice Martha Karambu Koome with Judges of the Environment and Land Court at State House, Nairobi during the swearing-in ceremony of recently gazetted Judges Nairobi on June 04, 2021. [PSCU, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta has thrown the first three punches in what is now a bare-knuckle fight between the Executive and the Judiciary.

The tussle threatens to suck the country’s legal fraternity into a corrosive institutional power struggle that has already given new Chief Justice Martha Koome a rocky start.