BBI Is Dead! Long Live the Katiba!

Waikwa Wanyoike argues that the recent High Court judgement that stopped BBI in its tracks, for now, was more consequential than the Maraga judgement that nullified Uhuru Kenyatta’s election on 1st September 2017. As a piece of jurisprudence, it has global implications across common law countries and it has demonstrated that when the executive and parliament go rogue – the judiciary can truly be their shield and defender.