Palaver - 06/10/09

Justice Aaron Ringera caved in to public pressure, conceded the reappointment letter was useless without the goodwill of Kenyans and Parliament. Then smiling machine Amos Shitswila Wako, who is our Attorney General, rebuffed Ringera’s claims the AG’s office was the biggest letdown on war against graft. But it turns out Wako’s case is that of new kettle laughing at the black-bottomed one sitting on the fire, for his name and Chief Justice Evan Gicheru’s top the list of those being pushed out if Kenya is to reform.

A tale is told of Kenya’s former Health ministers. One was functionally illiterate, thought Ascariasis the waterborne disease was military terminology, and could not pronounce, leave alone spell, the word schizophrenia. The other was better off with typewriters whose factories had closed down and the other, a former high school teacher, was so broke a year after he was voted out he was a regular user of Akamba buses. All this time a professor of medicine was always in the Cabinet, but in such fancy Ministries as Technical Training!