Amos Wako

The Hague beckons for suspects

By BERNARD NAMUNANEPosted Thursday, November 26 2009 at 22:00 Ocampo asks ICC judges for go-ahead to start the probe into Kenya’s case The indictment of key post-election violence suspects drew closer on Thursday after...

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Why Country Should Not Have Signed the Rome Treaties

opinion Right from the beginning, I was very unhappy that Kenya had signed the Rome treaty that seemed to reverse our independence into a corner controlled by the imperialists. For the last one full year, Luis Moreno-Ocampo's...

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Prime Minister on the right track

Prime Minister Raila Odinga last week made what looks like a bold move to tackle long-standing issues that have been contentious among public school teachers. Meeting officials of the Kenya National Union of Teachers, Mr Odinga...

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Scholars Caution On Fast Tracking

Arusha — Scholars meeting in Arusha have cautioned partner states of the East African Community on the proposed political federation, suggesting a slow approach. The academicians and political leaders from around the region...

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MP shelves Bill on graft agency

By JOHN NGIRACHU Posted Monday, November 16 2009 at 22:30 Garsen MP Danson Mungatana has suspended a Bill that seeks to put Kenya’s anti-graft watchdog under the office of the Attorney General in a move, he says, would make it...

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Kenya: Is It the President Or AG Who's Above the Law?

In 1991, newly appointed Attorney-General Amos Wako stood on the floor of Parliament and proclaimed that "a characteristic of the rule of law is that no man, save for the President, is above the law".

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Kenya: A Leadership That Has Deferred the Country's Dream

opinion Nairobi — Sometime in the late 1990s, as donors tightened the purse strings on Kenya, a desperate President Moi dashed to London to plead Kenya's case before the head of the World Bank. Like in Chinua Achebe's The...

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Country Seeks to Strengthen Protection Law

Nairobi — The government has proposed wide ranging amendments to the Witness Protection Act that aims at guaranteeing the safety of witnesses in the post-election violence trials. Attorney General Amos Wako Thursday said the...

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Jurists disown calls for Wako to resign

By WALTER MENYAPosted Wednesday, November 11 2009 at 22:00 Chairman denies joint statement with Law Society asking AG to quit One of the parties purportedly pushing for Attorney General Amos Wako’s ouster has distanced itself...

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Kenya: Revealed - What New Constitution Says

Nairobi — The proposed constitution provides for an executive prime minister, a two-chamber parliament and devolution, according to a working draft seen by the Daily Nation. The national government will be made up of two houses...

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