Chief Justice Willy Mutunga wants politicians to look for alternative ways of dealing with election disputes other than court redress. Speaking at an Expert Meeting on Handling of Election Disputes in Kenya in Nairobi yesterday, Mutunga warned that continuous reliance on the judiciary to handle election petitions is tantamount to tainting the image of the judiciary. “We are assuming that courts should handle election petitions in a country with incorrigible divisions based on ethnicity, gender, race, region, religion, clan and occupation. How do you expect any court in this country to decide...
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