From All Africa (Kenya)
After all the bickering, the names of Dr Willy Mutunga and Nancy Baraza are destined to the National Assembly for approval before their formal appointment by the President as Chief Justice and deputy respectively.
The naysayers will have their day but the majority will have the way. The opponents of Kenya's troubled transition to a functional democracy will have lost yet another battle to stop the reform train. Its part of the legacy of social transformation all over the world; history records that at every turn, there are always antitheses of every milestone that are either consumed by the tempest or eventually catch up with time.
But it is a pity, really, that the two nominees should take up their positions in the knowledge that their nomination was opposed by a significant section of this society - the church leadership - that has historically been associated with the reform movement.
A pity because after all these years of collaborating with the civil society in crusading for reforms, the church leadership should be the last to turn around to question the morality of one of its acclaimed leaders. At no time have civil society organisations questioned the morality of the clergy even when allegations of scandals are writ large. If they could hear, the Walls of Ufungamano House would tremble at the things being said now about Dr Mutunga, who as convenor of the crucial Citizens' Coalition for Constitutional Change, spearheaded the reforms that are now finally coming to pass.
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