Chief Justice David Maraga Reveals Why He Skipped President Uhuru's Parliament Address

Chief Justice David Maraga Reveals Why He Skipped President Uhuru's Parliament Address

Chief Justice David Maraga has revealed why he and other Supreme Court Judges skipped the official opening of the 12th Parliament by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday.

Through his personal assistant, Mundia Muchiri, the CJ said that he was not invited to the function.

"I can speak on good authority and say that there is no invite that was sent to the CJ unless it was sent generally to the Judiciary, which should not be the case,".

"The Speaker should, as a matter of protocol, send the invite to the CJ, for if you do not invite the Chief Justice, then who else have you invited?" Muchiri told
The Standard .

There are reports that some Supreme Court judges missed the function as they were busy writing the much-awaited ruling of the presidential petition.

It is said that an official apology was sent by judiciary to the State House explaining why the judges would skip the function, the Standard reports.

"They are under a lot of pressure to have the judgment ready. Considering that the event would take a whole day and they have to deliver on their promise, they could not attend. It is not a boycott," a source stated.

It is a tradition of Parliament that judges of the highest court attend the first sitting of a new National Assembly and the Senate.

National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi said that the Judiciary had been invited and he did not know why it failed to show up.

"I am reliably informed by the Clerk that they were invited. We always invite them, at least the Chief Justice and other judges for such functions. I do not know why they did not attend," said Muturi.

Comments

D Mwose (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 10:07am

SO WHO IS LYING BETWEEN mUTURI- THE SPEAKER AND MARAGA THE CJ ? CREDIBILITY ISSUE HERE. IM CERTAIN WHO TO BELIEF. WHAT IS YOUR TAKE?

Imara (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 10:29am

@ Mwose, you are right. Somebody is lying.

I have a feeling that the robotic and Jubilee alliance sycophants are lying to protect their king and supreme dictator Uhuru.

sokora (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 10:44am

It doesn't matter anyway. I would not invite him either if I were the President. Hey, tit for tat and an eye for an eye.

Kifaranga (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 11:13am

So, what's the big deal?? They appear if invited. If they weren't invited, they wouldn't attend and if they were invited and they were busy or gave an apology for not to attend, so what? It's not a must that they have to be invited or attend. The President made it very clear that business not as usual!!!! Mambo bado!!

Bondoh (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 12:02pm

Why must they be invited yet ,there's no president elect to officially open the 12th parliament,,,therefore they are right for not attending.

Anna Mumbi Kamau (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 01:33pm

I can not look at CJ Maraga's face without feeling his betrayal of Supreme will of the people by annaling elections without conducting a recount of paper ballots on which voters elected their prefered candidate. EV records can be matched with paper ballot to verify voter did indeed go to polling station and was verified.

KIM (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 01:51pm

This current Maraga supreme court is a big shame for Kenya.Millions of ordinary citizens voted and let their voices be heard via the ballot box.Then these supreme court,used their judicial powers to steal the election from them.Nothing can be more immoral than this.These current supreme court judges just have to resign after the rerun.I just don't see how the Kenyan supreme court is going to ever fully recover from this horrendous and foolhardy decision.

Kifaranga (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 02:19pm

Very true, we don't have president elect. We have a seating President, President Uhuru Kenyatta. I totally agree with you. Read our constitution.

Wakenya (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 03:48pm

For your information complainers, the seating president is still head of state, head of government and commander in chief. And runs State house. Sad for you guys.

D Mwose (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 05:54pm

Kuleni wembe sasa, the current SUPREME COURT is not an extension nor is It a jubilee rumberstamp! MTANYOLEWA BILA MAJI

OneDay@times (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 07:49pm

Why should they be " under a lot of pressure to have the judgment ready"? Is it proving hard to justify the verdict?

Kamau wa Banana (not verified)     Wed, 09/13/2017 @ 09:58pm

Of course Muturi is a lying piece of shit. Even if the SCOK Justices were invited, they would not have attended. By attending, they would have confirmed that Uhuru was validly elected which was not the case. I am proud of Maraga & the 3 justices who who stood up for justice.

Kifaranga (not verified)     Thu, 09/14/2017 @ 12:12am

@Jeffrey Mokara, you are nothing but a pathetic tribalist and that's where we differ. " Hasira ya mkizi furaha ya Mvuvi ". Wait until October 17th then uongee hiyo matope ya ukabila. By the way, for your information, if you want to know my tribe, am a proud Kenyan and Kenya is my tribe. Your kind of mentality is the one which makes you the way you are. Tulisonga mbele zamani. Wewe baki hapo na fikira za kale peke yako.

Iso (not verified)     Thu, 09/14/2017 @ 10:50am

17 October will reveal the stupidity in your so call jubilee leaders. A bunch of corrupt drunkards.. NASA will form the next gov of kenya

Anonymous (not verified)     Fri, 09/15/2017 @ 03:28pm

Mtanyolewa bila maji wana jubilee mambo kweli yamechacha.Can I print Tshirts for the new central republic of Kenya now that these central people wataiba wimbo that am currently composing the title of which keeps changing daily depending on the way they keep abusing me and my people now that we have not faced the knife

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