Ruling on Githongo signals Judiciary’s return to dark days

It is frightening how fast and how deeply we have gone back to the ways and distresses of the worst of the Kanu regime. Every day something happens that reminds us of the bad old days of the 1990s, something that no sensible Kenyan who remembers those days would wish to return.

The contempt exhibited by William Ruto in deliberately positioning himself as the defender of the corrupt and incompetent--besides brazenly exhibiting a wealth whose origins defies logic--is a page from the 1990s. If he is not minimising the Sh21 billion Dams-gate scandal, he is defending the indefensible Kiambu County budget. It could well be that Kiambu County simply copy-pasted budget lines from the national Budget. But doing that is supreme incompetence at best. At worst, it could be outright looting, using the budget lines as cover.