Supreme Court judge Jackton Ojwang suspended

figganigga · 2019-04-02T19:01:26+00:00

Supreme Court judge Jackton Boma Ojwang has been suspended with President Uhuru Kenyatta appointing a seven-member tribunal to investigate his conduct. In a Special Gazette notice dated March 29, 2019 President Kenyatta said Justice Ojwang had been suspended with immediate effect pending conclusion of the probe. “In the meantime, Jackton Boma Ojwang, Judge of the Supreme Court of Kenya stands suspended from exercising the functions of hisoffice with immediate effect according to Article 168 (5) of the Constitution,” read part of the notice. This comes after the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) wrote to President Kenyatta recommending the formation of a tribunal to investigate Justice Ojwang following a petition filed by one Nelson Oduor Onyango and eight others. The petitioners cited grounds of misconduct, impropriety, conflict of interest and breach of judicial code of conduct for the removal of Ojwang. The tribunal will be chaired by Court of Appeal judge Alnashir Visram with the members including; retired judge Festus Azangalala, Ambrose Weda, Andrew Bahati Mwamuye, Lucy Kambuni, Sylvia Wanjiku Muchiri and Amina Abda. Justice Ojwang is alleged to have benefited from the construction of a road leading to his rural house in Migori County, in return for a favourable ruling involving Governor Okoth Obado. He had been summoned to appear before a JSC Committee but he refused and instead sent his lawyer Nani Mungai to represent him. https://citizentv.co.ke/news/supreme-court-judge-jackton-ojwang-suspended-238948/

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Start date Apr 2, 2019

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