DICTATORSHIP: Jailing officials of the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists’ Union was not only wrong, but also smacks of dictatorship, says Mike Opondo. The way out of the terrible setback, he proposes, is to hire foreigners to run courts. High-profile suspects with batteries of lawyers, he claims, have always used underhand methods to defeat justice and enjoy their loot. He is particularly alarmed at the increasing deaths of soldiers in the war with Al-Shabaab in Somalia. She asks: “Could these people have been working genuinely or were they using their previous stations as platforms for their political ambitions?

Source: Daily Nation February 15, 2017 15:32 UTC