`Rogue attorney-general' sparks concern in Kenya

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Two powerful defendants, two courtrooms, two similar outcomes: charges are dropped in cases that moved even a magistrate to wonder aloud at the state of justice in Kenya.

In one proceeding, Attorney-General Amos Wako said neither police nor prosecutors had had time to investigate whether the president's wife, Lucy Kibaki, had slapped a news cameraman during a confrontation over what she considered unfair media coverage of her family. That even though the assault -- on World Press Freedom Day earlier this month -- had been televised.

Senior Principal Magistrate Rosemelle Mutoka said on Wednesday that though she had reservations, she was bound by law to accept Wako's request to drop the assault charges, even though "the court feels it tramples on the rights of the vulnerable, the downtrodden and the helpless in the society."

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/05/20/2003255878

Are we talking about Ken Lay, Nicole Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Pickles Bush, Tom Delay, aWol Bush...?

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1. A story worth watching

if one knows anything about Kenya,
a nation where every other person thinks he is another George Galloway.