The farce reached peak absurdity when notorious ambulance-chasing lawyer Cliff Ombeta (a man whose entire legal career seems built on defending the indefensible for the highest bidder) was paraded as the “voice of reason” in the staged courtroom circus against the wrongfully arrested university students. There they were: bright young Kenyans, illegally detained, publicly humiliated on national TV, their mugshots splashed across regime-friendly blogs, only to be lectured about “law and order” by