{"id":189758,"date":"2025-01-27T04:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T02:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-judges-magistrates-condemn-unilateral-withdrawal-of-koomes-security-detail\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T04:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T02:23:40","slug":"kenya-judges-magistrates-condemn-unilateral-withdrawal-of-koomes-security-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-judges-magistrates-condemn-unilateral-withdrawal-of-koomes-security-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Judges, Magistrates Condemn &#8216;Unilateral&#8217; Withdrawal of Koome&#8217;s Security Detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Kenya Magistrates&#8217; and Judges&#8217; Association (KMJA) has condemned the &#8221; <em>unilateral and arbitrary<\/em><\/em>&#8221; <em>withdrawal of the security detail of Chief Justice Martha Koome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">KMJA accused unnamed individuals of attempting to reinvent and deploy &#8220;McCarthyism tactics&#8221; to intimidate and coerce judges and magistrates, with the ultimate goal of weakening the Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">&#8220;It is disheartening that, in addition to the McCarthyism tactics deployed by certain members of society, the National Police Service&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501240375.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Magistrates&#8217; and Judges&#8217; Association (KMJA) has condemned the &#8221; unilateral and arbitrary&#8221; withdrawal of the security detail of Chief Justice Martha Koome. KMJA accused unnamed individuals of attempting to reinvent and deploy &#8220;McCarthyism tactics&#8221; to intimidate and coerce judges and magistrates, with the ultimate goal of weakening the Judiciary. &#8220;It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":189759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6764,4358,7031,4688,430,47657,16448,257,4586,254,12879,11279],"class_list":["post-189758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-condemn","tag-detail","tag-judges","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-koomes","tag-magistrates","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unilateral","tag-withdrawal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}