The Attorney General has fiercely defended president Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive on police recruits which has been criticised as a defiance of the courts. AG Githu Muigai maintains the president did what he had to do. But as Linda Oguttu reports, the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution says the president’s directive is a violation of the law. Linda also spoke to one of Kenya’s top legal minds who insists the president had several useful options and did not have to defy the courts