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Ethnic profiling reigns supreme as assault on court turns ugly

Jubilee supporters demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in Nairobi on September 19 over the nullification of the presidential election. [Beverlyne Musili,standard]

The Supreme Court of Kenya could become a victim of ethnic profiling that rules the tides of time and life in Kenya. Nothing in the country can pass without subjection to the clouded lenses of ethnic profiles and odium. Hence, in the post-Supreme Court’s nullification of the August 8 presidential election, a powerful section of the political class has thrown overboard the merits in the court’s decision. It purposes to drag and devastate the apex court through the kinds of sewers in which the International Criminal Court (ICC) was dragged in the period 2011 – 2015.

This segment of the political class has labeled the court’s decision a “sinister coup against the sovereign will of the people.” Conversely, their opponents have hugely celebrated the court decision. They have just fallen short of declaring it an ethnic victory against their traditional adversaries. The spinoff is that both only continue to contribute to a steady deterioration of an already polarised ethnic landscape.

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