Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from January, 2019

Do we really have a strategy in graft war?

Former Premier Raila Odinga speaking at the Ant corruption conference /The Star Last week, I watched on live television, top leaders in our country attack the Judiciary for supposedly undermining graft war. All the while, Chief Justice David Maraga sat there patiently as all huge cameras beamed lights on him. To start with, the idea about creating a two day conference on corruption is fairly a new one and the objective of such is difficult to decipher. Has corruption become a sector which we need to meet and deliberate issues about it?  So I wondered...why isn't everybody at his duty doing the  right thing? If everybody is doing their job the best way, the business of fighting  corruption or any ill will cease. As Chief Justice rightfully put it, bail is a constitutional right that every Kenyan should enjoy. It is on this basis alone that it makes no sense at all to blame our courts if they award bail to suspects of corruption. Denying suspects bail does not in