The NARC government was barely three weeks old. Power was still warm in its hands and President Mwai Kibaki himself remained confined to a hospital bed, his body still negotiating peace with the injuries of a recent road accident. Then, on the cold evening of Friday, 24th January 2003, Kenya held its breath. A plane had crashed in Busia. Details were thin, confused, almost unreal. Several Cabinet members and MPs had been aboard that ill‑fated aircraft, a chilling thought that threatened to resha