Sidhani kama judiciary then, being constituted mainly by wazungu/wahindi, then it was weak. It all dependsvon the people running those institutions and the govt in power operating as per, and being totally faithful to the constitution. Africans eventually supplanted the Asians/ Europeans in managing those institutions, but was it for the better? In fact, some very uncomfortable opinions emerged among the Africans themselves then that i.e. the civil service under the white control was better in terms of standards than the Africans who had recently supplanted them. It was an interim inefficiency...so it was hoped. But it has been such a long long wait for efficiency and competence.
Not all leaders in the newly independent Kenya really wished to for Kenya to be a capitalistic statem Kenya, just like nearly all the newly independent countries at the time, found itself being courted by the Eastern and the Western blocks. Divisions started to emerge soon after the independence over which political ideology began the the two Kenya had to adopt. Leftists, led by Oginga Odinga, with Pio Gama Pinto as his chief political strategist preferred communism. The conservative right leaning camp was led by Jomo Kenyatta, with Mboya being the weapon to fight the former. Game on...