Are independent commissions a burden or play a critical role?

Judiciary staffer carries a constitution dummy ahead of the president's swearing-in at Kasarani in September 2022. [Denis Kibuchi, Standard]

Several reports on the performance of South Africa's Chapter 9 institutions should make us reflect on the performance of Kenya's equivalent institutions, our Chapter 15 commissions.

The South African and Kenyan institutions were formed out of a recognition that the existing institutions to hold government accountable, were not sufficient.