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To protect rule of law, courts should stay out of political fights

By Ken Opalo

One of the cardinal features of Kenyan exceptionalism in the region has been our ideological commitment to public order and the rule of law. Even at the height of autocracy under presidents Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi, there was always the sense that legal procedure had to be followed, even when the law was being used to violate other people’s rights.

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