Foreign leaders have come to the continent with their prescriptions to African problems while turning a blind eye to the mistreatment that Africa has suffered in the hands of the West.
We cannot fight poverty and meaningfully enact programmes of social uplift if we remain a country where everyone is at war with everyone.
Ruto, your hustler narrative won so many hearts on the campaign trail. It appeared that finally, there is a government that is going to reward honest work. But that hope was quickly dashed.
The choices we have made in the past 20 years have brought us to this grinding gridlock of insensitive politics. We killed the constitution-making process that helped end Kanu’s 40-year stranglehold.
But a time of reckoning has come. We must confront all the sins we have either committed or tolerated in the course of our nation building.
The future of our country is in our hands. We must jealously guard that future with all we have got. I reject as false, the narrative that government has all the solutions.
There was complacency among many Azimio fanatics and the deep state illusion became a poisoned chalice rather than a boon to the coalition.
Africa must prioritise mass introduction of electric transportation infrastructure and energy storage, coupled with greater usage of technologies to improve energy efficiency.
The Kenyan youth has received enough flak on account that they did not participate in the last general elections.
African countries, in particular, must find innovative ways of fostering economic growth and development while jealously guarding against natural resource depletion.
A disproportionate chunk of revenue remains at the centre. Devolving resources and power must never be misconstrued as a tool to heighten ethnic and tribal differences.
Taxes, prices of basic commodities and petroleum products have all been on steroids while incomes have remained stagnant, thereby occasioning loss of purchasing power.
How else do you explain the reinstatement of Uhuru-era policies that we all knew lacked imagination and will to extend a hand up to those left out and left behind?
If Baba does not run, it will be an interesting election because the Luo Nyanza constituency will ask itself, "Where do we go from here?’’
Media reports that the committee is yet to find a middle ground on the reconstitution of the IEBC is a pointer that Bomas as presently constituted is the big boys club for the big boys’ interests.
We must rededicate ourselves to an anti-graft crusade that has no regard to political affiliation. We must come together as Kenyans and forge an ecumenism to rekindle the soul of the nation.
When the history of Jubilee is written, at least a footnote will be reserved for Sabina Chege, either for being too ambitious or too innocent to be the person who helped snuff life out of the party.
Those personality fights took us to 2022 elections with its ugly post-election fallout that we are still trying to apply a salve on through the National dialogue.
I know we didn’t elect an angel to the office of president. As such we must extend to him some grace as both sides of the political divide gives the president the headroom to deliver.
With diminished production, we became largely dependent on exports, including fish from China. This then increasingly saw the dollar nosedive against the shilling.
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