Kenya: 'Pious' Paul to Mend Bridges Once Named AG

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Nairobi — When Justice Paul Kihara Kariuki walked into Parliament's mini-chamber on Thursday to interview for the job of Attorney General, trailing him - as though stuck to a piece of gum at the bottom of his shoe - was the controversy surrounding what might very well be one of his last acts as President of the Court of Appeal, should the National Assembly approve his nomination.

On the eve of the October 26 repeat presidential election, he empanelled a bench - under what some viewed as suspicious circumstances - to hear an appeal against a High Court finding that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission's process of recruiting Returning Officers, was irregular.

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