Yash Pal Ghai

Kenyans are obsessed with politics — and love talking about it, almost all the time. The media are obsessed about politics, devoting most of their coverage to politics and politicians. Nearly 100 per cent of op-ed pieces deal with politics (including, I have to confess, most of mine).

In the middle of this month, I read three sets of papers that told the same story – do not fight terrorism with terrorist methods.

As I was studying the Public Audit Bill, I was surprised to see a clause which gives the Attorney General (AG) very considerable powers over the Auditor General (AuG) as to the information he must not disclose, including information that “would unfairly prejudice the commercial interests of any b

Last Sunday Ali Mazrui, the greatest scholar Kenya has produced, was buried in Mombasa. He died in the US, which became his home after he was effectively exiled from Kenya by the government in the early seventies.

Recently, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta ‘approved’ the appointment of 11 judges out of the 25 nominated by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated his presidency, just over a year ago, by the following declaration, “Achieving peace and strengthening unity will be the goal of my government. This work begins now”.