We must keep our eyes on the road to a better Kenya

“You must be the change you want to see in the world,” Mahatma Gandhi

In a month’s time, we will be celebrating the fourth anniversary of the promulgation of our Constitution, the symbolic birth of Kenya’s “Second Republic”. Yes, August 27 will forever remain immortal in the sands of our time, a lasting memory of that epochal moment in 2010 when we boldly crossed the Rubicon and set the motherland on the path of renaissance. It is said you must never be afraid to take one giant leap if it is obvious that you cannot cross a chasm in two little steps. By overwhelmingly endorsing a new Constitution, we took a massive step towards a fresh start. A new dawn. We brought to life a dream that had wafted for inordinately long. Broke a storm that had raged more than humanely bearable. Realised a vision held back for decades by all sorts of malevolent forces.