Politicians should focus on issues and tone down political rhetoric

Fred Matiang'i- Acting Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government  photo:courtesy

One would have thought that two weeks short of the August 8 General Election, politicians would have stopped mudsling and chest-thumping and got down to the business of marketing their visions for this country.

That is yet to be. Manifestos were unveiled by Jubilee and the Opposition amid pomp and fanfare a few weeks back, yet none of the parties has come out to explain them in detail to the public.