Patrick Gathara

The reactions to the International Criminal Court Appeal Chamber’s ruling last week are a good example of the doublespeak that has come to characterise our politics.

Under the guise of giving the government the tools to fight insecurity, the proposed amendments give government wide and unchecked discretion in defining what constitutes a threat and taking measures to mitigate against it.

It is easy to dismiss Moses Kuria.

At the end of my first term in high school, I watched a screening of Steven Spielberg’s Poltergeist, the tale of an ordinary family unknowingly living in a house built over a graveyard without the bother of moving the bodies.