A retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice William Atuguba has stated that independence of the judiciary cannot be achieved unless the power to appoint judges is taken away from the president.
He argued that the constitutional provision that vests the power to appoint judges in the president is problematic.
The retired judge noted that this mode of appointment enables the president to nominate his favourites and persons who think like him, as judges. "The mode of appointment of judges suffers from the virus of hepatitis infection.
It has even gone to cirrhosis.