We can avoid Armageddon if we follow the Constitution

Kenya would be a nation of fools if we believed a word out of Attorney General Githu Muigai’s mouth. Last week, he asserted matter-of-factly that Jubilee’s Uhuru Kenyatta enjoys “full powers” of incumbency after the nullification of the presidential poll by the Supreme Court.

I wouldn’t take Muigai’s legal interpretation to the bank if I was Jubilee. In colloquial lexicon, AG Muigai’s interpretation of the Constitution – and the country’s laws – has generally been a big nothingburger. It’s not that Muigai is legally illiterate. No – rather, he’s chosen to give the state “politically convenient” legal advice whenever the executive wants to subvert the constitutional order. Muigai is a political gatekeeper in the guise of a lawyer.