Playing the Bench like a guitar

A number of election petitions are beginning to look pretty ominous for the incumbents, what with opponents scoring crucial ‘victories’ in preliminary rulings.

True, there may be nothing really significant to the actual outcome of the main case in, say, a court dismissing Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetangula’s claim that he was served the petition irregularly. Or even the courts ordering the re-tallying of Starehe constituency votes against the wishes of assistant minister Margaret Wanjiru.