Samuel N. Omwenga

Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and MP for Eldoret North William Ruto organized what was billed as a ‘peace/prayer rally’ on Friday, January 27, 2012 at the 64 Stadium in Eldoret.

But the event was anything but a peace and prayer rally.

By nominating Professor Githu Muigai to the office of the attorney general (AG), President Mwai Kibaki has accomplished something of a rarity for a meek but sleek politician: he has flipped the finger at Kenyans and flipped the finger at Kikuyu lawyers and all Kenyan women lawyers.

As Kenyans living in the diaspora, we have followed with keen interest efforts to revamp our constitution, going back to the first major draft effort by the Constitution Review Commission of Kenya in 2002 through the Bomas days when we felt fairly optimistic that a new constitution would surely b