Beware! Court orders are not suggestions

Justice George Odunga at the Milimani Law Court on 29/3/18. [Beverlyne Musili, Standard]

What started as a storm in a teacup has exploded into an ugly stain that will stick on the nation’s conscience for years to come. When the police arrested self-declared NRM general Miguna Miguna, they were just doing their job the way they know how. They initially wanted to grill him on the ‘illegal oathing’ at Uhuru Park on January 30. May be they had more reasons, but I highly doubt they knew what they were getting into and the hullabaloo that would follow. If they knew, then they were unprepared and tactless. The whole episode has been mishandled and exposed the soft underbelly of Kenya’s officialdom.

No matter how this saga ends, someone got one big egg on their face. It is a huge blot they will carry with them as long as they are in public office. For how can you explain the humiliation meted out against a Kenyan by birth on his home soil, ostensibly, because he had denounced his citizenship? First of all, is there such a thing? All this was done in disregard for the rule of law, human decorum and legal discourse.