Why the president named road after Dennis Pritt

Dennis Pritt

• Dennis Pritt represented Jomo Kenyatta during the Kapenguria Trial
• For his effort in defending Kenyatta, the advocate was rewarded with Nairobi’s Dennis Pritt Road
• Pritt retired from legal practice in 1960 and became professor of law at the University of Ghana

The battery of lawyers in the presidential petition pitting Raila Odinga against Uhuru Kenyatta reminds one of Dennis Pritt.

 He represented Jomo Kenyatta during the Kapenguria Trial in which the future president was accused of “managing the Mau Mau” in 1952.