Kaluma criticises Maraga for joining Rose Njeri’s legal team
Homa Bay Town Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Kaluma has criticised former Chief Justice Peter Kaluma for representing activist Rose Njeri in court.
Njeri, who was arrested on May 30, 2025, in South B for creating a website for public participation for the Finance Bill 2025, was released on June 4, 2025, on a personal bond of Ksh100,000 pending a court ruling on whether she will plead guilty to the charge levelled against her.
She was accompanied to court by a team of prominent lawyers, including former Chief Justice David Maraga, Senior Counsel and former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, Senior Counsel John Khaminwa, among others.
Maraga told the court that police officers arrested Njeri on Friday, May 30, 2025, to hold her in custody over the long weekend.
“The police didn’t need to arrest her; they just needed to call her and tell her they wanted to prefer charges against her,” the former CJ said.
“Being arrested on Friday, knowing very well that Monday was a public holiday, was just meant to torture her. We pray your honour that you release her forthwith,” he added.
In a statement on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, Kaluma stated that the former Chief Justice has been reduced to representing ordinary criminals in courts.
“Who is pushing David Maraga, the greatest Chief Justice Africa has ever had, to represent ordinary criminals before Magistrates’ Courts?” he posed.
Furthermore, he has called on the government to find ways to engage retired senior officials meaningfully in society.
“As I said, we must find a way of making retired heads of the arms of the government meaningfully engaged or suffer the ignominy of seeing them idle in unimaginable low-class things,” he added.
Maraga’s presidential bid
This comes a month after Maraga affirmed that he will fulfil Genz’s request to vie for the presidency in 2027.
Speaking in Nyamira in April 2026, Mraga stated that youths have pressured him to vie for the top seat in the country because he possesses the leadership qualities backed by his excellent and exemplary past performance record.
He spoke during his first consultative meeting in Nyamira, seeking approval from opinion leaders and renowned political figures within the county and beyond, who have promised to support his political ambitions until the end.
“This is our first county hall consultation meeting to beseech your approval and blessing to be assured that you will rally behind me till D-day in 2027. We will be conducting similar meetings in all the 47 counties, and soon we will put in place functional structures to enable us to fulfil all the requirements expected of one to run for a political seat in this country,” he said.
“I have a formidable team of professionals who are working round the clock to ensure that we create and name a political party and later at the fullness of time do a grand launch of my political manifesto for Kenyans to know my political blueprint and its execution strategy to redeem and transform our country,” the retired CJ promised.
