There is nothing hurting as justice denied with all the required evidence. As it is, it seems no one will ever face the law over arson, murder or any other form of crime committed during the post election violence early last year in Kenya.

Just recently a group of young men were acquitted on basis that there was no enough evidence that they razed down a church in Eldoret (Rift Valley), where over 28 women, elderly and children were burnt to death. This was one the most horrific scene that characterized the epitome of the violence that shook the whole nation and yet our courts as supreme as they claim can never delve the much yearned for justice that could at least bring some sense in the whole idea of boasting of an i’ndependent’ judiciary.

Right now a British journalist is expected to testify against a policeman charged with murder during the violence. Even though the British government has not yet responded to a request to allow the journalist travel here, there is no sense in all this since our justice system has proved inept.

The journalist is expected to give evidence in relation to a video clip in which the suspect was allegedly captured shooting two demonstrators.

If one of the two most horrific incidents of the period ends with this outcome, what hope is there the crimes against humanity that were perpetrated last year will be punished? What hope is there of an end to impunity, a cancer that has eaten away at the Rift Valley Province since the introduction of multiparty politics in 1991 and with it the election-related plague of ‘tribal clashes’.

If the prospect of getting away with the atrocities of the post-election period holds, we can be certain of more crimes against humanity in 2012, whether or not Agenda Four items are resolved because ethnicity is an issue on the ballot.