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Uhuru and Maraga war gets dirty as JSC cracks emerge

President Uhuru Kenyatta with Chief Justice David Maraga after the swearing-in of new judges of the High Court at State House, Nairobi, in December 2016. [File, Standard]

The animosity between the Judiciary and the Executive is getting noisier, dirty and messy after banners were hoisted in major streets in Nairobi castigating the Chief Justice.

In an escalation of a war getting uglier by the day, the Judiciary reacted angrily to the banners and defended Chief Justice David Maraga against the ominous messages in the banners predicting an oncoming “vicious fight.”

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