Sunday, September 4, 2022 –Lawyer Miguna Miguna now says the Supreme Court may not help those who participated in the 2017 harassment of judges.
In what members of the public have insinuated as a message meant for strictly William Ruto and, maybe to some extend Uhuru Kenyatta, Miguna said Justice Smokin Wanjala and Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu endured a lot of pain at the height of the highly contested 2017 election.
He recounted how the two alongside many other Judiciary staff suffered a lot in 2017 petition in which Raila was protesting results of the presidential race as had been won by the Uhuruto duo under the ruling Party Jubilee. By then, William Ruto and President Kenyatta were wielding a lot of power against anybody who went against them.
And Miguna, on September 2 through his viral Twitter handle, wondered how the seven judges would again be helping such characters. Fortunately, Uhuru is not in the race.
“The same thugs who shot and wounded Justice Philomena Mwilu’s driver/bodyguard and withdrew Smokin Wanjala’s bodyguards in 2017 and arrested and harassed Mwilu in 2018 are the same ones expecting her to bend over backwards and help them. DISGUSTING sense of entitlement!” he wrote on his Twitter.
Prior to the nullification of Jubilee’s 2017 victoty in favor of the National Super Alliance NASA flagbearer Raila Odinga, there were reports that the bodyguard of Justice Philomena Mwilu had been shot as a warning to the judges. Sources went on to report that the threat was necessitated by the State’s insatiable appetite for power.
The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its judgment of the 2022 petition on Monday September 5.