L. Muthoni Wanyeki

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), has come and gone. His visit did not, however, clarify what Kenyans are impatient to know.

Voter registration (the manual one) ahead of the referendum ended on 9 May.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, will be in town this week.

Naturally, his visit, although touted as investigative, will really be more about the formalities.

Hate speech is, yet again, rearing its ugly head. Carefully prepared PowerPoint presentations are doing the email rounds, as are equally meticulous articles.

Those of you around Lake Bogoria last Saturday – or around their television screens – will have noticed the huge celebration taking place there.

On the eve of the Nation Media’s Group’s 50th anniversary Pan-African Conference, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation hosted what turned out to be a more interesting dinner than expected.

Is it possible to have an open debate on the areas of disagreement that have emerged on the Kenyan constitution? Theoretically, yes. Realistically, no.

It is increasingly clear that the protagonists who have emerged are being dishonest.

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga asks some officers in his office to step down over corruption and orders the suspension of two ministers having, at the very least, political responsibility for graft in their dockets.

Kenya’s debate around corruption with respect to education and maize illustrates, once again, just how seemingly impossible it is to do the right thing and how cynical many public officers have become.

The coverage of the recent African Union (AU) summit focused, unsurprisingly, on whether Libya’s Muammar al-Gaddafi would retain the chair.

He didn’t and it passed, as expected, to Malawi’s President Bingu wa Muthurika.