A Nairobi lawyer was overheard boasting loudly of his intentions to bring down all the judges of the Court of Appeal by accusing them of being corrupt and incompetent. The lawyer, who seems to have antagonised most of the judges in both the High Court and Court of Appeal, was reportedly set to appear before the vetting board for one of the judges. It seems the lawyer has prepared a dossier on each and every judge he has ever appeared before and lost a case. Our moles tell us the man is known to be a vindictive and sore loser and picks quarrels with judicial officers once cases go against his expectation.
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A journalist was relieved, but shocked by the cavalier and unorthodox manner in which a magistrate acquitted him of a defamation charge filed six years ago by a businessman who is now an MP from Eastern province. When the matter came up for mention yesterday, the angry and frustrated journalist confronted the magistrate outside her office demanding an explanation for the interminable delay in delivering the ruling. The journalist told the magistrate that he would complain about her tardiness to her bosses. Without much ado, the magistrate entered her office, came out after a few minutes, asked the journalist to state his full names and uttered the magic words he had been waiting to hear — You have been acquitted! Then she walked back into her office. Now, is this courtroom corridor acquittal binding. Shouldn't there be a record of the same?
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Cyrus Jirongo may be facing an uphill task to explain to some officials of KADDU why he dragged the whole party into URP without consulting the officials and members. Some of the officials — councillors from Kakamega — claim the Lugari MP's decision was unilateral and had condemned the members to "a life of political nomadism".
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