Politicians and lawyers will spend the next few days analysing the judgement that, early this month, annulled President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election. There is a stampede on TV talk shows as politicians and lawyers try to prove a point or two. While that is expected, it should not be allowed to degenerate into a smear campaign against the Judiciary. This newspaper believes that the judges of the Supreme Court acted in the best interest of the law of the land.
If nothing else, the ruling of the majority should remind us that the process matters as much as the outcome. Simply put; garbage in equals garbage out. It is also that in anything, even in a simple arithmetic sum, the process to derive the answer matters as much.