End of the road for Former High Court Judge Joseph Mutava as Supreme Court affirms a recommendation by a tribunal to kick him out of the bench for gross misconduct.
Former High Court judge Joseph Mutava has lost his bid for reinstatement after the Supreme Court upheld a tribunal ruling which found him unfit to serve as a judicial officer.
The Supreme Court upheld the tribunal’s ruling in judgment delivered by Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu and Justices Mohamed Ibrahim, Jackton Ojwang’, Isaac Lenaola, and Njoki Ndung’u, who heard his appeal.
The tribunal found him guilty of gross misconduct and recommended to the President to have him removed from the Judiciary.
He had requested the Supreme Court to make a finding that the allegations against him did not amount to the need for his removal.
He had told the five-judge bench that the tribunal, which was chaired by Chief Justice David Maraga, had expressed open bias against him during the hearing of the case in 2016 when his wife, Kibwezi East MP Jessica Mbalu, was compelled to testify.