Nairobi — We are yet again being treated to the circus of cabinet ministers talking at cross-purposes. When the prime minister, the attorney-general and the Justice minister affirm that Kenya will live up up her obligations as a subscriber to the International Criminal Court and, so arrest and hand over for trial at The Hague any person who may be indicted over the post-poll chaos, that would seem the official position.

But then this is Kenya where the management of a grand coalition government is further complicated by a bewildering array of ever shifting political, regional, ethnic and other interest groups.

We have a situation in which even voices as authoritative as those cited above can be dismissed by competing interests as merely representing personal views or pursuing revenge and vendetta.

As former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan and International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo follow each other into the country to catch up on respective unfinished business es -- the reform agenda and trials for masterminds of the post-election violence -- it is critical that the cabinet meets and comes out with a unified position on the key issues.

We do not need the embarrassment of such key intermediaries in our affairs coming out with the conclusions that Kenya is a hopeless case because there is not even a united government to speak with.