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Maraga, the only man who stopped Uhuru remains defiant to the end

Chief Justice David Maraga taking oath of office at State House in 2016. [Standard]

When a weary Chief Justice David Kenani Maraga walked onto the Supreme Court to deliver verdict on a presidential election petition on September 1, 2017, he carried with him the full weight of the nation in his judicial robe.

Millions of eyes were on him as he settled down to make sense out of the complex case, but also to give the country a way forward from the ritualistic political abyss that faces the country every five years.

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