The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has received a petition asking for Chief Justice Martha Koome's resignation.

The petitioner, Michael Kojo Otieno, alleges that the Chief Justice disregarded the law when choosing the tax appeal tribunal's members.

"While appointing persons to serve at the tax appeal tribunal, the judge failed to be honest in the execution of powers conferred to her by the Tax Appeal Tribunal Act based on powers conferred to the judge as a judicial officer...,"reads the petition in part


Kojo contends that the CJ lacked diligence and transparency and discriminated against applicants to the board.

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"The actions of the chief justice in appointing members more than the stipulated requirement violated section 4b of the Tax Appeal Tribunal Act," Kojo says.

He argues that, for the above reasons/arguments, the chief justice is unfit to hold office and should be removed.

The documents seen by Citizen Digital read, "The actions of the chief justice in the appointment of the tax appeal tribunal are indeed illegal, null and void and hence unfit to hold public office. "