ROAD RAGE JUDGE

A Nairobi court has acquitted a judge accused of stabbing a motorist last year in road rage.

Judge GBM Kariuki Thursday walked home a free man after Nairobi Chief Magistrate dismissed attempted murder charge against him.

Gilbert Mutembei also dismissed an alternative charge of causing grievous bodily harm to Robert Karori on the 18th of October 2007.

The Chief Magistrate said that the prosecution failed to prove its case against Kariuki beyond reasonable doubt.

Mutembei said that the prosecution carried out shoddy investigations noting that witnesses called by the prosecution were not credible saying that they gave contradicting evidence from what they had recorded with the police.

The suspended Kericho based judge is alleged to have stabbed Mr Kamau in the stomach with a sharp object at Lower Kabete road in Spring Valley.

Judicial reforms

Meanwhile, Chief justice Evan Gicheru is asking the executive and parliament to expedite the implementation of the report on the judicial reforms in the country.

Gicheru said that the judiciary will implement all the recommendations in the report that was recently handed to Constitutional affairs Minister Mutula Kilonzo.

The CJ who was speaking during the swearing in of 71 advocates said that the reforms in the judiciary will give judges more role in the management of cases.

The task force on judicial reforms recently handed it recommendations aimed at improving the judicial performance.