Kenyan government has cut links with an NGO it believes is exerting undue influence on the Judiciary.
Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed in a letter to International Development Law Organization (IDLO) Director-General Irene Khan announced suspension of an agreement between the NGO and Kenyan Government.
IDLO had entered into an agreement with Kenya allowing it (IDLO) to setup an office in the country.
“The Government of the Republic of Kenya and IDLO negotiated and signed a host country agreement on December 31, 2016, to establish an IDLO office in Kenya. This is to convey to you the decision of the government to suspend the host country agreement with immediate effect until further notice,” read part of the letter dated September 13, 2017 as told by Daily Nation.
Jubilee regime has accused the NGO of funding researchers working for judges and they in turn, able to influence rulings made by the judges.
Judiciary’s Registrar Ann Amadi had previously quashed assertions that some NGOs hold the courts in captivity.
“They are just donors, they fund Judiciary and everybody else, and there is nothing wrong with that. It is ridiculous to claim that judges are influenced by the donors,” she reiterated.
This move comes barely a month after the Supreme Court nullified August 8 polls where President Uhuru Kenyatta was announced the winner.
CS Mohammed is now lobbying 14 other African countries that have links with IDLO to cut them.
In her visit to Egypt last week, the CS informed her Foreign Affairs counterpart Sameh Shoukry that she will call for a meeting of all the 14 countries in regard to IDLO’s undertakings in Kenya.
However, IDLO on its website stated Kenya has been its member since 2010.
By Pharis Kinyua. He’s an online Journalist and an author for Jamhuri News.