{"id":27742,"date":"2021-05-14T18:48:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=27742"},"modified":"2021-05-14T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:16:29","slug":"meet-joel-ngugi-judge-who-wowed-kenyans-with-bbi-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/meet-joel-ngugi-judge-who-wowed-kenyans-with-bbi-judgement","title":{"rendered":"Meet Joel Ngugi: Judge Who Wowed Kenyans With BBI Judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Justice (Prof) Joel Ngugi was the Presiding Judge sitting with Justice George Odunga, Justice Jairus Ngaah, Justice Chacha Mwita, and Lady Justice Teresia Matheka on a five-judge bench that delivered the ruling on the BBI Constitutional Amendment Bill 2020 on Thursday, May 13.<\/p>\n

The five-judge bench cited the bill was unconstitutional due to a number of irregularities.<\/p>\n

The Harvard trained judge struck a chord with a number of Kenyans for his passion and confidence while reading out the shocking conclusions by the panel of judges.<\/p>\n

Some of the best legal minds in the Country have praised judge Ngugi as a gifted judge who has an agile brain in the current generation.<\/p>\n

“His integrity and sense of justice are unsurpassed,” Constitutional lawyer Waikwa Wanyoike stated.<\/p>\n

Senator Kipchumba Murkomen who is also a lawyer, remarked that the contribution of Justices Joel Ngugi, George Odunga, Jairus Ngaah, Chacha Mwita and Teresia Matheka would go down in history and be remembered for a long time.<\/p>\n

With his firm and calm delivery, the Judge struck a blow to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s pet project while sending politicians and Kenyans who opposed to the initiative into a frenzy.<\/p>\n

According to his profile on The Animal law Conference, Ngugi was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Kenya in September 2011 and initially stationed at the High Court in Machakos.<\/p>\n

He was appointed by the Chief Justice to head the Judiciary Transformation Secretariat which is responsible for implementing the Judiciary Transformation Framework 2012-2016.<\/p>\n

Before his career in the judiciary, Ngugi was a lecturer at the University of Washington in Seattle where he taught law.<\/p>\n

At the University, he researched on the role of law in economic development, the role of governments in market regulation and wealth allocation, and legal reforms in transition and developing economies.<\/p>\n

In terms of his Education, Ngugi is a graduate of the Nairobi University where he studied in 1996 before he proceeded to the Kenya School of Law in 1997 for a Postgraduate Diploma in Law.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, he went to Harvard University where he obtained an LL.M. in 1999 and an S.J.D. in 2002.<\/p>\n

There, he was one of the two recipients of John Gallup Laylin Prize in International Law in 2002. He has previously practised at Boston law firm of Foley Hoag, LLP, as a corporate and international litigation associate. He also practiced law with the Kenyan firm Kariuki Muigua & Company Advocates before moving to the United States.<\/p>\n

The judge is no-nonsense and recently delivered a judgement for Jane Muthoni, a woman accused of sending hitmen to kill her husband, who was a principal at Kiiru Boys High School.<\/p>\n

He found Muthoni guilty and also convicted her co-accused Isaac Ng’ang’a alias Gikuyu.<\/p>\n

The convicts will be sentenced on May 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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