The resignation of Martha Karua from the cabinet is a most timely event. The coalition government has been teteering on the edge, dogged by one corruption scandal after another. The culture of impunity that has permeated the Kenyan ruling class in the last several months can be partly blamed on the corrupt judiciary. Indeed the law society of Kenya has petitioned the president to ask the chief justice to quit. If Amos Wako were a sane man he too would have already left the Attorney General’s docket by now.
Two cheers to former justice minister Martha Karua for having the courage to quit cabinet. I hope that this will challenge other ministers in the grand coalition to start pressuring both president Kibaki and Premier Odinga to implement much needed reforms in the judiciary and the wider civil service.I hope that she will keep true to her word and “totally disagree with anything that is anti-reform.”
ps: the conspiracy theorist in me is very curious to know why president Kibaki chose to throw Ms. Karua under the bus. After all, she was one of his most vociferous supporters after the 2007 election fiasco. What don’t we know???
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Interesting, I would not put the words Hero and Martha Karua in the same sentence. Are we so ignorant and blind to see this turn coat now calling herself a reformer? People say that Kenyans are now very informed, but I beg to differ for we are now saturated with junk information with the truth hidden.
There is nothing to cheer about for we are seeing a story that has been played so many times in Kenyan politics and we moan and groan at the quality of our leaders when they keep hoodwinking the poorly informed into thinking they are reformed leaders!! all in in all like it or not Kenya ina wenyewe… Wenyewe know how to keep us all talking mindless ‘politics’…
As for the other post on elections, just what are we electing? what will these elections really mean, me says nothing, nada!
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You asked the right question “What don’t we know?” Otherwise, I was a little disturbed that you could mistake Karua for a reformist. neither does the word heroine apply to her. Dec 07 and Jan/Feb 08 are still fresh in my mind. The BBC hardtalk, last years indictment on the press, among many other stupid things Karua has done paint her more as a disgruntled opportunist than anything else. She is anything but heroine-reformist.
Adios
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the lady did good. i agree with you. if it is not such bold moves that will end impunity i know not what.
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I believe the iron lady remains a heroine hitherto,
The writer did misquote her as a “hero”,
I wish to forgive him because this is but a world dominated by his like-minded male chauvinists.
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