Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana can easily be christened as the father of the Kenyan Judiciary based on the number of high-ranking individuals that passed through his hands.
Case in point, five out of the seven judges who sit in the Supreme Court's bench towered to their influential position after being tutored by the governor at University of Nairobi.
Appearing on Upclose by Betty Kyallo on Friday night, Kivutha revealed that he taught Supreme court judges Smokin Wanjala, Njoki Ndung'u, Mohamed Khadhar Ibrahim and Isaac Lenaola.
The revelation was in relation to a question on why his cabinet was full of young people in which he revealed that it was paramount that the state invests in them.
"In the Judiciary Supreme Court, Justices Njoki Ndung'u, I also worked with Wanjala, I was their teacher. Mohamed Ibrahim, Lenaola.
"I realised that you can actually invest and young people will, in the future, help a country," He told Kyallo.
A communications officer from Makueni county further told this writer that Deputy CJ Philomena Mwilu was mentored by Kibwana.
The officer further revealed that several high ranking lawyers in the city including Makau Mutua and former Attorney General Githu Muigai were taught by the respected governor.
It was also reported that the governor attended Kenya School of Law and was a class ahead of wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka. They were taught by former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga.
Besides a Bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Nairobi, Prof Kibwana, who was born in Mwanyani, Makueni County, holds two Masters of Law degrees - one from Harvard and the other from the University of London.
