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Thursday, 7 July 2016

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The name of the next chief justice will shock you

Out of all the people who applied prof makau mutua is the most qualified.

Makau has been a vivid critic of the jubilee government but according to pundits he is the most qualified for the top job.

Here are is credentials according to Wikipedia.org

Makau W. Mutua
Makau W. Mutua (born 1958) is a
Kenyan-American professor of law. In December 2014, Mutua was fired as Dean of the University at Buffalo Law School after a seven-year stint. He claims to still remain a SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar at the Law School. He was regrettably the first professor in the history of the Law School to be named SUNY Distinguished Professor. [1] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations . [2] In October 2015, he joined the World Bank in Washington D.C to work on governance and human rights. In December 2012, Mutua was appointed to a four-year term on the recommendation of the Obama Administration to the Board of Advisors of the International Development Law Organization or
IDLO which is based in Rome, Italy. [3]
In July 2013, he was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York to the Moreland commission to Investigate Public Corruption. [4] In that role, was appointed – as did all the other commissioners – to the rank of Deputy Attorney General by New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman .
Mutua was ranked No. 110 by Buffalo Business First in the Power 200 most influential people in 2013 in Western New York. [5] In March 2012, he was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to a three-year term to the board of directors of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation.[6] In April 2011, he was appointed to a three-year term by Governor Andrew Cuomo to the New York State Judicial Screening Committee for the Fourth Department.
[7] In May 2010, he became a member of the Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, the first Greek-letter society founded by African-American men in the United States. Mutua has been named several times as among the most influential black lawyers and educators in the United States.[8]
In 2003, he was appointed by Kenya's President Kibaki to chair a task force that eventually led to the establishment of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission in 2008. [9]

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