Justice Maraga said reports linking the officers to corrupt deals of the Akasha family are malicious. We, therefore, find the link to the Akasha case malicious and obviously intended to intimidate the judge and thus influence his decisions in other cases,” the Chief Justice added. Mr Maraga also cited the criticism levelled at Justice Dora Chepkwony, saying her role in the Akasha case was very minimal. “As we have said before, we do not condone corruption but to have our judicial officers recklessly besmirched is unacceptable,” the Chief Justice said. He urged the DCI chief to provide the Judiciary with information of corruption involving judiciary officers after reports from the US indicated that the Akasha brothers had confessed to have bought their freedom by compromising members of some judges, lawyers and police officers.

Source: Daily Nation November 05, 2018 03:33 UTC