MARAGA tells DCI KINOTI and DPP NORDIN HAJI that arresting suspects on Fridays will not end corruption in Kenya – It is pure nonsense!!

DAILY POST: MARAGA tells DCI KINOTI and DPP NORDIN HAJI that arresting suspects on Fridays will not end corruption in Kenya – It is pure nonsense!! Politics 01:44 Saturday January 26, 2019-Chief Justice, David Maraga, has defended the Judiciary against accusations that some judges are assisting some corruption suspects to evade justice.
On Thursday, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Nordin Haji, and Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI), George Kinoti, accused the Judiciary of frustrating the ongoing war against graft by issuing orders that favours criminals. Kinoti and Haji also said courts make it difficult for the agencies to arrest rich and powerful corruption suspects. “Some of the frustrations that pull us down are some strange orders we receive. We are stopped even before we record a statement from somebody whom we know very well has stolen from Kenyans,” Kinoti said. But in a fierce rejoinder on Friday, Maraga downplayed the accusations and hit back at the DCI and DPP for what he called “gimmicks” and trying to use the Judiciary as a scapegoat. “The fight against corruption is not going to be won by blame games. It will not be won by Friday arrests. Let truth be told. We are not going to win this war by these kind of gimmicks,” Maraga who seemed irritated said. The CJ said the DPP and the DCI have been filing half-baked cases in court, with weak evidence.  Sometimes, he said, the prosecution appears in court ill-prepared, forcing the presiding judges and magistrates to adjourn the cases. “The war against corruption is going to be won by concrete evidence that will be brought to us. If you are not going to bring concrete evidence, then we are going to acquit,”  “You put 30 accused persons in one charge sheet and they have 30 lawyers. You [Kinoti and Haji] will continue blaming the Judiciary and we are not going to move anywhere.”he said.

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