Justice Rawal fights for four more years in the courtroom

About 41 years ago, Kalpana Hasmukhrai Rawal appeared for the first time in a Kenyan court during an election petition filed by Henry Muli against Mau Mau fighter Paul Ngei.

The petition was over irregularities in the Kangundo parliamentary seat. Then, she was only a lawyer’s clerk. Ngei lost the case and the court nullified his election, but President Jomo Kenyatta, who had been detained with him under the colonial rule, saved his political career. Mzee Kenyatta granted him a pardon.