Kiambu Senator Karungo wa Thang'wa says that the government will target lawyers accused of corruption after cleaning the Judiciary which he accused of being a conduit for graft.
Speaking during a rally in Kiambu County on Friday, the UDA senator wondered why lawyers were protesting against President William Ruto yet the Head of State had raised serious concerns that needed to be addressed.
Ruto accused the judges and other judicial officials of entrenching corruption in the Judiciary. Based on the President's remarks, Thang'wa maintained that the government would not relent in its quest to clean up the Judiciary.
"When we say that judges are corrupt, why would you protest as a lawyer? They have demonstrated in Nairobi and they blame Ruto. We want to say that after we are done with the judges, we are coming for the lawyers," he stated in response to the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) demonstrations led by Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka and other senior counsels.
LSK organised the demos in solidarity with the Judiciary.
"We are fighting corruption in the Executive, Judiciary, Parliament and lawyers too," Thang'wa added.
Notably, Ruto had also alleged that some lawyers were colluding with corrupt judges. Specifically, the Head of State claimed that the previous government laid down a budget for bribing judges and lawyers.
According to Ruto, the alleged corrupt judicial officers solicited bribes to rule in favour of the government in lawsuits affecting his agendas.
“Do you want your money to be used to bribe the courts? No budget will be made to bribe anyone in the courts. The courts are servants of Kenyans,” Ruto stated while on a development tour in Uasin Gishu county.
Meanwhile, Chief Justice Martha Koome, while overseeing the farewell of former Judiciary Chief Registrar Anne Amadi on Friday, called on her critics to table concrete evidence rather than coerce her to act on propaganda.
"The Commission will only act on the basis of evidence and not on blanket statements or allegations that have not been substantiated. Doing otherwise will mean an overthrow of the Constitution and the rule of law. That the Commission will not do!" Koome asserted.
