Kerubo Wins, Rejects 3.5m Bribe, Baraza Appeals

She had her nose pinched. She cried rivers of tears. She was reprimanded for daring to ask the right questions to the wrong people. She loved her job which she did with fear or favour. She was threatened. Goliath cornered poor David. She knelt down and begged for her dear life. Poor Rebecca Kerubo has the final sweetest and longest laugh.

The verdict from the tribunal was as stinging as it was delivered in very unflattering language. The crown had come tumbling fro Queen Nancy Baraza's head.

Forget Kiraitu/Ringera's radical surgery without a scalpel. This true surgery yielded immediate results and left rivers of blood flowing in its wake.

A tiny insignificant poor security guard who begged for her life kneeling at gun point can now savour the sweet victory after risking standing up to mighty DCJ.

Pride surely comes before a fall. The celebrated civil society lawyer who was rewarded with the coveted inaugural DCJ job has paid the ultimate prize with both her character and reputation.

This must be just the right spice Chief Justice Willy Mutunga needed to augment his zeal to reform and modernise the hitherto rotten judiciary.

Judiciary is no arena for ego expansion nor condescending theatrics.

Electronic Voting: Govt Shows Belated Leadership

BREAKING NEWS: Tribunal pinches Nancy Baraza's nose and finds her guilty of gross misconduct.

The Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission's decision abandon biometric and opt for manual voter registration is an irresponsible act that throws Kenya to the dogs.

Forget about all the empty assurances which are all anchored of individual integrity. Asking for integrity from our leaders amounts to squeezing water out of a stone.

The IEBC's decision is not only an admission of failure on their constitutional responsibility. It is a national sabotage and a dereliction of duty. We cannot simply afford to invite enhanced version of 2007/8 chaos.

The fact that IEBC could not comprehensively and transparently secure tender for BVR is testimony of our corrupt national fabric. Predictably, the politicians must have been salivating around the tender like vultures circling a carcase.

But the Isaack's led IEBC knows our politicians just too well and surrendering a national project as a result of their thieving manoeuvres is akin to moral treason.

Even the overtly corrupt Nigeria has a BVR system. We cannot and must not surrender progress and revert to manual voter registration which is an unwitting invitation to Kenya's meltdown in seven months time.

Human beings cannot be left to their own goodwill which is perishable. That is why we have laws to tame and equalize all and sundry. We must not experiment with a definite disaster.

We must resist IEBC's sentence of national suicide. No to manual vote registration in 2013 under any circumstances.