MONROVIA, May 9 -- To ensure judicial independence and integrity, the appointment of judges and other judicial officers should be done by an institutionalized body, instead of being done by presidents and chief executives, says Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, the Director of the Kenya School of Law and renowned activist.

Professor Lumumba made the comments in his address at the ongoing Meeting of the African Regional Group of the International Association of Judges conference in Monrovia.

"When you have in your constitutional dispensation, a system where there is a strong judicial service commission, which involves the judiciary, involves the bar, involves member of the society, involves the cabinet, then you are immunizing the ...