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Nairobi \u2014 Chief Justice Martha Koome has hit back at President William Ruto’s criticism of anticipatory bail, warning the Executive against undermining judicial independence through public attacks on judges.<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking at the Law Society of Kenya Annual Conference in Kwale on Thursday, Koome said grievances with court decisions — even by the government — must be addressed through lawful appeals or reviews, not through “defiance or vilification” of judicial officers.<\/p>\n “No one has the right to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 Chief Justice Martha Koome has hit back at President William Ruto’s criticism of anticipatory bail, warning the Executive against undermining judicial independence through public attacks on judges. Speaking at the Law Society of Kenya Annual Conference in Kwale on Thursday, Koome said grievances with court decisions — even by the government — must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":204856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660845:5f4c8a190952392d8e1c7ab84b0f07c3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,306,7900,7631,7031,4688,430,37268,257,2194,11238,9757,254],"class_list":["post-204855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks","tag-bail","tag-executive","tag-judges","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-koome","tag-news","tag-protest","tag-ruto","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660845:5f4c8a190952392d8e1c7ab84b0f07c3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204855","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=204855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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