A senior Kenyan academic who called for dramatic cuts in the powers of President Mwai Kibaki was shot dead at the weekend. Odhiambo Mbai, a political scientist and official of Kenya's constitutional convention, was murdered by gunmen who stormed into his home in Nairobi. President Mwai Kibaki Dr Mbai told colleagues three days before he died that he had received death threats and was being followed. A political scientist, he was a senior official of a conference drafting Kenya's new constitution, He had been due to unveil proposals tomorrow to transfer powers from Mr Kibaki to the new post of...