Matiangi, don't create room for persecution

As it is said, you can’t have your cake and eat it, too. Lately, a chorus of condemnation of our Judiciary by the Executive arm of government has been spiralling. The slow pace at which graft cases move through our courts and a lack of convictions have frustrated an Executive eager to prove to a sceptical public that it is fighting rampant corruption within government institutions.

The recent conviction of the Akasha brothers in the United States gave the Executive enough reason to act holy in its false righteousness. After years in which the Akashas dodged Kenya’s justice system, the US conviction provided the extra ammunition that the Executive needed to fire salvos at the Judiciary, but the Executive is being dishonest.