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Senior Counsel Philip Murgor during an interview with The Standard at his office in Nairobi, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. [David Njaaga, Standard]
To understand Senior Counsel Philip Murgor, one must peel off countless layers of a man who is intensely motivated, devoted to his family and a public servant. You sense a little impatience in him, enough to declare he is no pushover.
The son of former Provincial Commissioner Charles Murgor, by any measure the Lenana School old boy was raised with a silver spoon in his mouth.
But the former DPP would like to be seen as a product of both worlds. He has hobnobbed with the who-is-who in the country, including working for former presidents Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki, but suggests that he has not lost his common touch. In fact, he maintains an uncommon panache.
America doesn t need new security laws to prosecute insurrection
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President-elect Joe Biden is already suggesting new laws in response to the attempted right-wing putsch against the American government this week. The
ournal reports that he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism . [and has] been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them[.]
It s obvious after this past week why he would suggest such a thing, but this is a wrongheaded approach. There are already plenty of tools at the government s disposal to crack down on far-right insurrection. Rather than new laws and more bureaucracy, Biden and incoming Attorney General Merrick Garland should enforce the laws that already exist, and reform the dysfunctional security apparatus so it will do what it is told. These are necessary