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CJ Koome denies housing levy deal with executive

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Chief Justice Martha Koome chats with President William Ruto at Safari Park Hotel during the launch of the annual report on the Administrative of Justice on Monday, December 2022. [Samson Wire, Standard]

Chief Justice Martha Koome has dismissed claims that the Judiciary entered into a pact with the Executive on the affordable housing levy.

While insisting that President William Ruto's remarks were 'taken out of context', Koome argued that the Judiciary was sitting as an arbiter and her meeting with the president had nothing to do with the controversial levy.

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