The tight lid of tranquility that has characterised the Supreme Court has been ripped open, exposing an institution full of intrigues and one that is tottering precariously.
The intrigues are laid bare in a series of leaked emails between Chief Justice Willy Mutunga and Justice Njoki Ndung'u, which now threaten to tear apart the apex court, just a year to the general election.
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The two Supreme Court judges have had a bitter falling out following Ndung'u's decision to suspend Friday's Court of Appeal decision to cap judges' retirement age at 70.
In a series of leaked emails authored soon after Ndung'u issued the prohibitory orders, the image one gets is that of a court characterised by a carefree attitude, mistrust, outright insubordination and where the judges hardly speak to each other.
The emails reveal both Mutunga and Njoki have not been on talking terms, something that could explain the near machine rapidity with which the latter disregarded his orders and proceeded to hear the two applications that have caused a storm.
And as a proof of the underlying tension in the court, Ndung'u, in a no-hold-barred tactic, accuses Mutunga of "having a specific outcome in mind" of the case. She also accuses him of "having issues with the decisional independence of judges, particularly myself".
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