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On October 9th 2002, the chairperson of the Law Society of Kenya Raychelle Omamo led the first nationwide courts boycott by advocates. The advocates, then numbering about 3,000, in a protest dubbed the "Yellow Ribbon campaign" were protesting an attempt by judges, through proxy litigation, to stop the proposed vetting of judges.
Kenyans generally, and lawyers in particular, had become fed up not just by judicial corruption, but by the role the Judiciary had played in subjugation of human and civil rights in the 80s and 90s. They wanted the Judiciary weeded of its seedier members in what members believed was a new Kenya. What angered the lawyers the most was the attempt by judges to sit in judgement in a matter of public interest in which they were direct beneficiaries.
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