A Civil Society lobby group yesterday congratulated President Kibaki for withdrawing the controversial nominations to the judiciary and the budget control office. Reverend Timothy Njoya said, “Go and sin no more.”
While the civil society outdid the political class on the controversial nominations, churches have gone moribund since they did not play any oversight role during the storm, Njoya said. “We unreservedly congratulate the President for heeding the voice of the people. Indeed the voice of the people is the voice of God,” Morris Odhiambo of the National Civil Society Congress said.
Kibaki’s nominations of Justice Alnashir Visram as Chief Justice, Githu Muigai as AG, Kioko Kilukumi as director of public prosecution and William Kirwa ran into trouble when PM Raila Odinga said he was not consulted as per the constitution.
Odhiambo said that they now look forward to a better working relationship between Kibaki, Raila and members of the Cabinet so that they could faithfully implement the constitution besides dealing with other issues affecting the country.
The civil society group under the Jukwaa La Katiba demanded that chapter six of the constitution be followed to appoint only people of integrity to many other positions.
Tom Kagwe from the Kenya Human Rights Commission said sustained pressure on the executive will ensure a strict adherence to the new constitution.
Kagwe said he expects to see women appointed to top positions of the yet to be transformed institutions. “Women need not deputize men in all positions. Why not have a woman as a police inspector general? The two thirds reservation for women should be respected in all appointments,” he said.
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