Former Chief Justice David Maraga has criticized presidential aspirants in the coming general elections for not showing interest in fighting corruption.
Maraga said that the candidates have failed to outline how they will eliminate graft and the misuse of resources once they are elected.
Maraga was speaking during the official opening of 15th Science Conference for Orthopedic Doctors in Mombasa County whereby he said that politicians need to inform Kenyans whether they would obey the law unlike their predecessors who have disregarded the same.
“I stand to be corrected but we have two major problems in this country; disregard for the law and graft,” Maraga stated.
According to the former CJ, the country loses about Kshs608 billion to graft every year an amount that could be used to pay the Standard Gauge Railway debt within a year.
“We are already in the campaign mood and most are giving very good ideas. However, in my view, nobody, none of the presidential aspirants has come up to address the major issues facing this country,” Maraga said.
During his term in office, the judiciary was involved in various disagreements with the executive.
The two openly voiced the discontent with each other’s way of handling of matters involving the Executive.
Some of the occasions include when the 2017 elections was nullified, budgetary cuts, appointment of Judges and dissolution of Parliament.
In a previous interview, Maraga said that he would remember President Uhuru Kenyatta as a person who disregarded the rule of law.
Basing on the appointment of judges, President Kenyatta had declined to appoint 40 judges that the judiciary had nominated since 2019.
The president only approved the appointment of 34 judges after the new Chief Justice Martha Koome had been sworn in while rejecting the appointment of six judges.
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