Principle of checks and balances should be put into use to avoid conflict
THE STANDARD OPINION President Uhuru Kenyatta with newly sworn-in Supreme Court Judge William Okello Ouko at State House, Nairobi. In the interests of the Kenyan state, the President and the Chief Justice should work together guided by the principle of check and balances. The crafters of the State made the Executive precede the Judiciary and the legislature in the national pecking order. In creating the colonial state, conquerors and administrators came first. Courts came in to reinforce, but not compete with, the governor in running the state. A debate cropped up over that sense of respon...
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