More interesting, the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs seemed to take a much more nuanced approach than she has adopted these past weeks. Consensus seems to be gaining ground that a local solution to the Waki Report is necessary. The Justice Minister was adamant that Waki's report was not the result of investigation, that it never was Waki's mandate to investigate, and that as such there would be investigations during the next stage, i.e. at or before the tribunal or the Hague option.

She likened the current situation to a family's after one son kills another, saying that the family would have to punish and rehabilitate the offending son as part of its mourning, but that it could not even then throw out the murdering son.  The implication that such feuds are best dealt with in the family is understood.

Aldai MP Sally Kosgei, who is also Higher Education Minister also took a much more persuasive stance than has been the norm from the Rift Valley MPs. She warned against McCarthyism and something akin to the Salem witch-hunts, lamenting the injustice of accusing someone of crimes as great as these, and then asking them to defend themselves. It was all going so well before she finished that this was, ‘like putting the cart before the horse.'

And, who owns KTN? The station has taken on a extremely preachy, if still very populist stance on Waki, you know in that traditional Kenyan style, putting out short term fires while simultaneously increasing the risks for long term systemic conflagrations? Yes, that one.  News anchors on both services are extremely aggressive about this issue, even though like most of us they are unlikely to have read the report they are commenting on. This stance is at variance with the one it held earlier in the year, when all the youth deserved amnesty, Majimbo was good, and the Kibaki government oppressive against the Kalenjin. Does William Ruto still own shares? Or is the controlling stake there owned by someone looking to make a political comeback?

Finally, the EU ambassadors are threatening to cut of the goodies (roughly 100 million euro year on year to 20130 unless we behave ourselves, implement Waki, Kriegler, Land Reforms and get a new constitution.