Chief Justice leaves for Kenya

Accra, Jan. 16, GNA - Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, Chief Justice and Member of the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board of Kenya, left Accra at the week-end for Nairobi, Kenya, to participate in interview sessions for vetting of Judges of the Court of Appeal of Kenya.

The interview sessions will be preceded by pre-vetting activities which will include the swearing-in of two foreign judges, Justices Albie Sachs of South Africa and Fred Chomba from Namibia. The nomination of the two foreign Judges by President Mwai Kibaki has been approved by the National Assembly of Kenya. Justice Sachs was a Judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, who was appointed by President Nelson Mandela in 1994 and retired in October 2009.

A statement issued in Accra by Mrs Grace A. Tagoe, Director of Communications at the Judici'