Raphael Tuju, a former cabinet secretary, has bemoaned the five Supreme Court judges’ unfairness in handling his legal case, which would now cost him ten years of waiting.
A contested 27-acre plot of property in Karen is the subject of an ongoing legal dispute between Tuju and the East African Development Bank (EADB).
Tuju claims that the matter cannot be heard until the youngest retires because the judges, led by Chief Justice Martha Koome, recused themselves from it.
“What caused them to withdraw? What led to their recusal?” he said in a Spice FM interview on Monday.
When the youngest of them retires in 2036, I will be able to have a quorum, but until then, I will never be heard. I’m entitled to a hearing.
Tuju hinted that EADB’s testimony, which he has called erroneous, was another factor that led to the dispute with the judges.
He claimed that once EADB claimed that Tuju’s defense had pilfered private documents from the bank’s Kampala headquarters, his evidence against the bank was called into question.
He went on to say that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) even called him to address the accusations.
“The bank provided them to me while we were negotiating. I answered that I could because I was required to pay 10% for this project, which was Ksh. 90 million,” Tuju stated.
“I requested confirmation that, upon making the 10% payment, you would release the remaining loan balance. Don’t worry, here are the board minutes,” they said.
His emotion follows closely behind a letter he wrote to CJ Koome on Friday, in which he expressed serious reservations about the five judges’ performance of their duties.
According to Tuju, the judges of the Supreme Court have not fulfilled their grave responsibility to preserve the Constitution, guarantee fair trials, and enforce the rule of law.
