CJ Mutunga To retire One year Earlier.

By Fred Tunya and Nixcy Murage

The Kenya's Judicial President Dr. Willy Mutunga will be retiring come June 2016, a year earlier.

Mutunga’s term is to expire on the 22nd June 2017, having taken up the job in June 2011.
However, Mutunga announced on Friday that he chose to retire one year earlier to pursue other transformation duties in the larger East Africa.


According to reliable sources within the judiciary, the CJ opted for early retirement to pave way for 2017 general elections.
Several candidates are set to succeed Mutunga including Supreme Court judge Smokin Wanjala, Court of Appeal's Kariuki Kihara among other hopefulsBesides Mutunga, two other judges from the Supreme Court – Deputy Chief Justice Kalpana Rawal and Philip Tunoi, are expected to follow suit and retire

                                                                                owing to their age.

Slots in the Judicial Service Commission were also the subject of interest in the succession debate, even as President Uhuru Kenyatta this year appointed Winnie Guchu and Kipng’etich Arap Korir to the JSC.