{"id":249179,"date":"2024-11-11T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/11\/no-one-has-ever-tried-to-bribe-me\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T19:30:09","slug":"no-one-has-ever-tried-to-bribe-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/11\/no-one-has-ever-tried-to-bribe-me\/","title":{"rendered":"No-one has ever tried to bribe me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/500\/50077613.295.jpg\" alt=\"Martha Koome says the attacks are\" title=\"Martha Koome says the attacks are\" width=\"295\" height=\"154\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Martha Koome says the attacks are<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">Kenya\u2019s most senior judge has hit out following recent allegations of corruption and incompetence within the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In all these 22 years I\u2019ve been a judge and a chief justice, nobody has ever approached me with a bribe. I would have them arrested,&#8221; Martha Koome told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s first female chief justice has recently been accused of failing to properly investigate and tackle allegations of bribery and corruption within the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Some Kenyans have been referring to &#8220;jurispesa&#8221; \u2013 a corruption of the legal term jurisprudence and pesa (the Swahili word for money) &#8211; implying there is corruption in the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>But she defended herself and her colleagues, asking anyone making such accusations to present the evidence to the security agencies or to the judicial oversight commission.<\/p>\n<p>She told the BBC Africa Daily podcast that the claims were &#8220;supposed to lower my credibility. It is supposed to distract me. I know who I am and I know what I have done and what I am going to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said she would always remain impartial.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s judiciary has long been marred by claims of corruption and in 2021 Justice Koome told the BBC that corruption was &#8220;a national embarrassment in and out of the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>She said that some of the criticism she faced was because of her gender. &#8220;It is total misogyny. It is total chauvinism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also said that one of the things she was most passionate about was addressing violence against women.<\/p>\n<p>She said it was &#8220;completely disheartening&#8221; that &#8220;every other day there is a report of a young woman who has lost her life through violence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Koome said there were many matters of rape that were not moving at all or were waiting in court for lack of witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a recent increase in the levels of violence against women, with police announcing that nearly 100 women and girls had been killed in the past three months.<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 women were victims of femicide in Kenya between 2016 and 2024, according to the Africa Data Hub.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Koome expressed her commitment to addressing the issue by making justice available to women across the country.<\/p>\n<p>She has said she aims to open 11 courts around the country specialising in sexual and gender-based crimes \u2013 with two of them already set up in the western Kisumu and Siaya counties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of hope in them because cases of gender-based violence must be given priority. So that the victim who was violated does not keep coming to court, year in year out,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Koome says the attacks are Kenya\u2019s most senior judge has hit out following recent allegations of corruption and incompetence within the judiciary. &#8220;In all these 22 years I\u2019ve been a judge and a chief justice, nobody has ever approached me with a bribe. I would have them arrested,&#8221; Martha Koome told the BBC. 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