Michael Mutembei Kibutha Makarina has filed a petition before the Judicial Service Commission seeking to remove Judge Anthony Mrima from office.
The petitioner has accused Mrima of gross misconduct and incompetence during the handling of the case that businessman Jimi Wanjigi had filed against the Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti leading to Kinoti’s four month jail term.
According to Makarina, Mrima demonstrated a lack of impartiality. He further said that Kinoti’s jail sentence was given because the court believed that the firearms were in his possession.
He now wants JSC to investigate Mrima to determine whether he got any benefits by jailing Kinoti.
“The Judicial Service Commission be pleased to order the immediate suspension of the Honourable justice Anthony Mrima for his open show of bias, incompetence, corruption, misbehavior and misconduct in the exercise of his judicial functions in Petition no.520 of 2017 between Jimi Wanjigi & another versus Inspector General of Police and 3 others,” the petition read.
The petitioner further faulted the judge for failing to put into consideration the efforts of Kinoti in ensuring there is security and tranquility in the country.
Through his lawyer Danstan Omari, the petitioner argued that Judge Mrima ignored the Sentencing Policy Guidelines so as to avoid irrational and excessive sentences.
“It is appalling and a clear abuse of the judicial discretion to have witnessed the accused judge run over the Director of the Criminal Investigations and to have convicted him to jail for four months without any other option for the decision of the court while being ignorant of the evidence,” the petition further read.
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