REPUBLIC OF KENYA - The Judiciary

“Some of those judgments have led to [the] removal
of some judges and magistrates, yet the
ramifications of
the same continue to exert untold suffering on
quite a number of Kenyans. Hence I encourage
Honourable Members to carefully study Clause 14,
and if they deem it fit, allow it to exist. In
conferring this special jurisdiction on the Supreme
Court, we are remedying the wrongs that may have
been perpetrated on the Kenyan people in the
previous dispensation.”
[122] This short venture into the history of the Constitution, as well as
of Section 14 of the Supreme Court Act, is simply meant to illustrate
that the people of Kenya not only expected to get a clean Judiciary on
the dawn of the Constitution, 2010, but also sought an avenue through
which past injustices, inflicted upon the people by corrupt judicial
officers, would be addressed. That expectation was, in part, actualised
by the enactment of Section 23 of Sixth Schedule (“Transitional
Provisions”). The result thereof was the Vetting of Judges and
Magistrates Act, 2011, which came into force on 22 nd March, 2011,
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