The biggest casualty is democracy, not Kindiki

“Friends, Romans and countrymen, lend me your ears; I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” These opening lines of a speech by Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar had a hauntingly familiar ring last week. In Senate proceedings to vote for the removal of Deputy Speaker Kithure Kindiki (pictured), speaker after speaker waxed poetic, quoting extensively from Shakespeare and the Bible. In the end, after extolling his virtues, they buried Kindiki, dispatching him from the lofty perch he has occupied from the start of the 12th parliament.