Yash Ghai and Jill Cottrell Ghai

In October 2010 the Trustees of the Kenya Railways Staff Retirement Benefits Scheme sent in bulldozers before sunrise to destroy the homes of its tenants: a mixture of Railways’ pensioners, and former employees, and statutory tenants.

As Kenyans prepare for the implementation of a new constitution, in the expectation of a Yes vote, attention will turn to technical questions of implementation.