The crisis at the Supreme Court of Kenya is worrisome. The serious allegations of bribery of a judge, irrespective of the veracity of such allegations; and the fact that an inquiry has been instituted bring to the fore the million-dollar political question: could the court, as currently constituted, be used to usurp the peoples’ will in the next General Election?
It is necessary for our democracy to have an independent, objective and trusted arbiter in the inevitable conflicts that would arise from time to time.