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Stop bashing the judiciary in corruption war

In the 19th and 20th centuries, it was common practice for countries to suspended or ignore their constitutions during times of war. At such times, the state would have a free hand to do whatever it desired, including arresting those who were thought to be collaborating with the enemy and locking them up without following the due judicial process. 

In Kenya, there seems to be a war going on, and it is not that fight against the ragtag militia with roots in Somalia called Alshabab. There appears to be a consensus that the big war now is that against our age-old enemy corruption. It is for this fight that our democratically elected government seems willing to have our rights, particularly that to fair trial suspended. In yesteryears, the trend was that the Anticorruption agency would investigate cases and forward files to the director of public prosecutions to determine whether they merit prosecution.

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