Adherence to the rule of law mandatory, it's not optional

High Court Judge Justice George Odunga in court when he ruled against the state officers flagrant disregard of court orders. [George Njunge, Standard]

Kenya’s Judiciary and Executive are on a collision course once again. Yesterday, a second order to the State to produce controversial lawyer Miguna Miguna in court was blatantly disregarded.

On February 7, in a contemptuous disregard of a court ruling to discharge Mr Miguna from police custody, Immigration officers with the help of the police, bundled the self-declared General of the opposition National Resistance Movement onto a KLM flight to Amsterdam en route to Canada. Miguna holds a Canadian passport.