MALPRACTICE

The court has yet to release its full judgment, and two judges dissented.

But substantial evidence of fraud, including forged results tallying forms and manipulation of electronic results transmission, emerged during the hearings aired live on national television.

Despite the overwhelming evidence the judges are expected to cite in the final document, their decision is still widely considered too brave for a country in Africa where democratic institutions tend to dance to the tune of the ruling elite.

For Kenya, the Maraga court has set the stage for another round of electoral reforms meant to wean it off its vote rigging culture that has seen the declared winner in the last three presidential contests raise eyebrows.

MEMO

His name is Ezra Chiloba: Characterised by the opposition as a State House poodle in the run-up to the August 8 election, sidelined by IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati from a project tasked with organising the October 17 re-run before being controversially reinstated and slapped with an ‘explain-how-we-got-it-so-wrong’ memo by his boss.

In a sane democracy, Mr Chiloba, the electoral commission’s chief executive, would have since handed in his resignation letter.

JUSTICE

But he has shamelessly chosen to cling onto his position and sit pretty, cheered on by the ruling Jubilee crowd.

And in a Pilate court-type contrasting fortunes of the hero and the villain, it is Justice Maraga who is being subjected to insults in public.

Mr Kenyatta set the tone the same day his victory was declared invalid, branding the Chief Justice and the other three judges ‘wakora’ (crooks).

The Jubilee crowd has taken the cue and is shouting, "Give us Chiloba... Crucify Maraga”.

But it is not Justice Maraga on trial; it is Kenya’s collective morality.

Daily-Nation