Lessons from Kenya

The presidential election in Kenya has come and gone but the ripples are still reverberating. After the initial proclamation of results by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission IEBC, Raila Odinga, representing a coalition of satellite parties took exception to its verdict and seized the Supreme Court, predicating his action on alleged impropriety in the procedure of collating results. Of course, the principal accused was the IEBC. The legal tussle lasted for as long as it was necessary for the Supreme Court judges to sail through the weighty evidence tendered by the Odinga camp. From the outset there was seemingly…