Parliament overrules Kenyan president

The Kenyan parliament last night rejected the appointment, by president Mwai Kibaki, of the head of the country's anti-corruption commission and his two deputies.

After a heated debate, the parliamentarians adopted a report by two parliamentary committees that proposed the rejection of the president's appointment on the grounds that it was unlawful.

The man appointed by the president, Justice Aaron Ringera, had already served for a five year term and had been criticised for not doing enough in the war against corruption, as Wairimu Gitahi reports from Nairobi.