The arrest of Ronald Kiprotich Melly who had been serving as the Medical Superintendent of Health at Meteitei Sub-County Hospital in Nandi County without requisite qualifications to render medical services is the latest indication of the bottomless depths to which we have sunk as a country on ethical and corruption issues.

Once again, our bloated Parliament has come back to haunt us. An audit by a team set up by the National Assembly has, for the second time in as many years, come up with the inevitable finding that Kenyans are over-represented in the two levels of Government as established by the Constitution.

Once again the obsession with impeaching governors has erupted, this time in Nairobi City County.

As human rights defenders fight to end runaway police killings in Kenya, incidents of police killings are being reported in the United States of America with striking similarities, particularly in the manner in which the media cover the shootings.

On September 9, Devolution CS Mwangi Kiunjuri signed and forwarded a gazette notice to the Office of the Attorney General to publish the commencement of the Public Benefit Organizations Act of 2013.

The shooting to death of Jared Otieno Agalo on the night of August 17 in circumstances that clearly point to another case of extra-judicial killing is among the latest incidents in which police have used brutal force in situations that do not warrant it.

The shooting to death of Jared Otieno Agalo on the night of August 17 in circumstances that clearly point to another case of extra-judicial killing is among the latest incidents in which police have used brutal force in situations that do not warrant it. These continue to happen as mechanisms established to hold the police to account seem either overwhelmed or simply conniving to cover up blatant breaches of the law.

The Civil Society Reference Group (CS–RG) condemns the brutal murder of lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwendwa and their driver Joseph Muiruri.

Kenyan politicians have resorted to bizarre and reprehensible tactics of coaxing reluctant would-be voters to enlist with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) ahead of the August 2017 General Election.

The scandal of Nandi Governor Cleophas Lagat attending the launch of a ghost project illustrates how counties flout devolution laws.

Recent reports that the Ministry of Education and the Kenya Private Schools Association (KPSA) had agreed on non-discriminatory Form One admission criteria are welcome.

One promise of the new law that will regulate all NGOs in Kenya – the Public Benefit Organisations Act 2013, is the freedom it gives Public Benefit Organisations (PBOs) "to engage in lawful economic activities as long as the income is used to support the public benefit purposes for which the organisation was established" (Section 65).

The Public Benefits Organisations Act 2013, the new regulatory and administrative framework for non-governmental organisations expected to come into force soon, provides for the establishment of an authority to be known as the Public Benefits Organisations Regulatory Authority.

The wave of crime that has hit the country since the conclusion of the General Election has put Inspector General of Police (IGP) David Kimaiyo on the spotlight. Kimaiyo is the first IGP since the position was created under the new Constitution and the National Police Service Act.