“You’re Biased and Compromised!” Kenyans Blast Justice James Wakiaga

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Kenyans are up in arms against Justice James Wakiaga, saying he is biased and compromised for trying to gag the media in reporting Monica Kimani’s murder trial.

The judge who took over the case from Justice Jessie Lessit barred the media from reporting on the trial citing sub judice> He said he would be upset if the media continues influencing the thinking on the case yet it is still in court.

“My attitude towards these people (media) is negative!…Those statements that you keep on telling us about this case, stop writing them from now,” he said.

“I am an old-school judge… if I am influenced before a case, I get upset.”

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Wakiaga said anybody who shall give information “will find it very difficult” now that he has taken over the matter. “…from now that I am taking this matter…. let us try and be kind to all of us…the information you put out there will put me in difficult position if I acquit these guys,” he said.

But Kenyans have told him, that they will continue reporting on the case because it is a matter of public interest.

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A section of Kenyans also wondered why the judge is hell bend on gagging the media and not presiding over the case?

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