Report said Kenya's deputy chief justice should be sacked for brandishing a gun at a shopping mall security guard, a tribunal recommended on Monday, a decision likely to boost public confidence in the country's judiciary.
Kenyas President Mwai Kibaki suspended Lady Justice Nancy Baraza last January and named a tribunal to investigate an incident in which she allegedly threatened Rebecca Kerubo with a pistol on New Year's Eve, at a shopping complex in the capital Nairobi.
Report came from the team said it was satisfied that Baraza, who is also the vice president of the supreme court, had breached the constitution and the code of conduct for judicial officers.
It agreed with the complainant's account that Baraza walked into the mall without stopping for mandatory security checks, pinched Kerubo's nose after an altercation, before pulling a pistol and threatening to shoot her.
The tribunal, which was chaired by retired Tanzanian Chief Justice Augustino Ramadhani said "A judge who engages in lawless conduct and thereafter tries to explain it away with misleading testimony should not continue in office,"
Also the finding will be passed on to President Kibaki, who is almost certain to sack her. The decision will be a triumph for reforms in the judciary following years of inefficiency and it could also instil a dose of humility into public officials who are often accused of looking down on ordinary people.
The judiciary has been tainted by the slow determination of cases, corruption and political manipulation.