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Opinion: What the Government is doing has alarmed even its own followers

Nandi Hills MP, Alfred Keter

There is no doubt about that. There is an adage that states that those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Jubilee gives all the indications of having run berserk. What the Government is doing has alarmed even its own followers.

There are three arms of government, and then there is the media. The Executive has captured Parliament and calls the shots there. It has kicked the media in the teeth and is holding a sword over the Judiciary. All these are the hallmarks of dictatorship.

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