The newly appointed Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya Mr. Willy Mutunga took office Monday20th June 2011 with a solemn promise to wipe out corruption and end impunity in the Judiciary.
Mr Mutunga replaces Justice Evans Gicheru who retired in February this year in tandem with the new Constitution.
He will be deputised by Ms Nancy Baraza who was also sworn-in together with Director of Public Prosecutions Mr Keriako Tobiko in a ceremony witnessed by President Kibaki, Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Raila Odinga, Justice minister Mutula Kilonzo and Attorney-General Amos Wako.
In his acceptance speech The New Cj said that expectations of the new Constitution, was to put tyranny, oppression and exploitation, opacity and impunity on the back foot “while making strides towards freedom, opportunity, transparency and liberty”.
Mr Mutunga faces an uphill task of cleaning up the image of the Judiciary by providing leadership to an institution viewed as most corrupt compared to other government agencies.
The CJ is also expected to address the issue of case backlog that continue to stalk the Judiciary. An ecomonic survey revealed that by December 2009, there were 910,013 pending cases – 2,372 in the Court of Appeal, 115,344 at the High Court and 792,297 at the magistrate’s courts.
Do you think Mr Mutunga's Endeavours will suceed?
Even though he has not been i the corridors of the judiciary for some time now, i wish him well
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