“The president of this country referred to the president of the Supreme Court and the other judges as “wakora”, or crooks in Swahili, it said.
“He went on to make veiled threats against the same judges based on their decision. The same threats against the judiciary have been repeated at State House,” said its chief Bryan Khaemba, referring to the presidential palace.
“We condemn this assault on the decisional independence of the honourable judges,” he said. Chief Justice David Maraga on Friday declared Kenyatta’s victory in the August 8 polls “invalid, null and void”, pointing to widespread irregularities in the electronic transmission of vote results.
An enraged Kenyatta said he respected the decision but lashed out against the judges, saying: “Every time we do something, a judge comes out and places an injunction. It can’t go on like this … there is a problem and we must fix it.
“I think those robes they wear make them think that they are more clever than the rest of us Kenyans,” Kenyatta said of the Supreme Court judges, taking specific aim at Maraga.
“Maraga thinks he can overturn the will of the people. We shall show you … that the will of the people cannot be overturned by a few people.”
On Friday he slammed the judges as “crooks”.
