Kenya's first female chief justice-Martha Koome

In a country once far-famed for political interference within the judiciary, Kenya's jurist Martha Koome is not any pushover.

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she designed her career defensive dissidents, and this year her court torpedoed constitutional changes planned by the president United Nations agency appointed her.

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But her own name for independence and fairness is unproven when opposition leader Raila Odinga filed a Supreme Court case on Monday seeking to overturn the results of the August. nine presidential election.

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The committee is split: the chairman declared that Deputy President William Ruto won by regarding 233,000 votes,

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however four out of the seven commissioners dissented, speech results weren't mass properly.

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