Kenya’s legal fraternity was shocked when, in November 2003, a respected and eminently qualified legal practitioner, Richard Omwela, turned down an appointment by President Mwai Kibaki to serve as a judge of the High Court of Kenya. It was never the done thing. Yet Omwela was only to be the harbinger of what would two decades later become commonplace under Kenya’s fifth President, Dr William Ruto.
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By Barrack Muluka