{"id":191968,"date":"2025-02-21T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-justice-njoki-ndungu-moves-to-block-unconstitutional-jsc-petitions\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:27:38","slug":"kenya-justice-njoki-ndungu-moves-to-block-unconstitutional-jsc-petitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-justice-njoki-ndungu-moves-to-block-unconstitutional-jsc-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Justice Njoki Ndung&#8217;u Moves to Block &#8216;Unconstitutional&#8217; JSC Petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Supreme Court Judge Njoki Ndung&#8217;u has petitioned the High Court to halt the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) from proceeding with petitions seeking the removal of the entire Supreme Court bench over alleged misconduct and incompetence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The petitions, filed by former Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju, lawyer Nelson Havi, and Christopher Rosan, have placed the Supreme Court bench, led by Chief Justice Martha Koome, under scrutiny&#8211;a move Justice Ndung&#8217;u strongly opposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">In her petition,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502210476.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 Supreme Court Judge Njoki Ndung&#8217;u has petitioned the High Court to halt the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) from proceeding with petitions seeking the removal of the entire Supreme Court bench over alleged misconduct and incompetence. The petitions, filed by former Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju, lawyer Nelson Havi, and Christopher Rosan, have placed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":191969,"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":[258,256,9056,7029,6852,4688,430,6858,23646,257,50677,8997,254,11723],"class_list":["post-191968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-block","tag-jsc","tag-justice","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-moves","tag-ndungu","tag-news","tag-njoki","tag-petitions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unconstitutional"],"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\/191968","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=191968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}