PNU secretary general Kiraitu Murungi has said the party is mobilising MPs to support the Chief Justice and deputy CJ nominees when their names are presented to Parliament May 14, 2011. FILE
By LUCAS BARASA
Posted Saturday, May 14 2011 at 13:53
Posted Saturday, May 14 2011 at 13:53
PNU is mobilising MPs to support the Chief Justice and deputy CJ nominees when their names are presented to Parliament.
Secretary general Kiraitu Murungi hailed the Judicial Service Commission for nominating Dr Willy Mutunga for CJ job and Ms Nancy Baraza as his deputy saying they are the best for the job.
“Dr Mutunga is a well known reformer, constitutional lawyer and personally suffered in the struggle against injustice,” Mr Murungi who is also Energy Minister said.
He said PNU believes Dr Mutunga will spearhead radical changes in the Judiciary “as he is a thorough person and pro poor".
“He is going to stand for the rights of the oppressed and marginalised Kenyans. We are certain he will correct the mess in the Judiciary made in past decades. We will support him,” Mr Murungi said.
Mr Murungi said PNU was marshalling for Dr Mutunga and Ms Baraza when there names are taken to the floor of the National Assembly.
Sports and Youth Affairs assistant minister Kabando wa Kabando also welcomed the Chief Justice and deputy CJ nominations.
“It is a milestone, a radical shift from the old order. Momentous it is. The old order is being crashed by the new dawn; political interests are subdued,” Mr Kabando said.
In a statement, he said, the declaration of Dr Mutunga as proposed Chief Justice is “hugely phenomenally inspiring” and that of Ms Nancu Baraza deputy CJ “very refreshing.”
“For once, conservatives must get the message: that those for long blocked from the old systems opted for intellectual and reformist activism, to save Kenya and initiate greater changes that we now enjoy. The tired old system cannot reinvent itself. New people, new ideas, new systems are in order, to fit into the new dawn, new dispensation,” Mr Kabando said.
He said Dr Mutunga volunteered legal services that prevented the Kanu regime from maliciously expelling University of Nairobi students in 1992.
He added that Ms Baraza “motivated us as a team-player among young lawyers who rolled out LSK lobby for scrapping of totalitarianism in 1990.”
“She is bold. And firm. She deserves the judicial crown. You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of courage. It comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future,” he said.
The Mukurweini MP said the Judicial Service Commission has made a lesson for the Executive and Parliament that politics of brinkmanship have no place in the new dawn.
"Politics of chess, politics of ethnic drivers, are outdated and nauseating. Rebirth has just begun in earnest.”
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