Anybody would crack under a combination of betrayal trauma and a siege mentality. Add to that the not-so-subtle shifts in the political matrix, and I will wager Deputy President William Ruto finds himself in that dilemma at the moment.
The ground on which he stands doesn’t look so firm. And because such situations contribute little to serenity, the unexpected happens; like giving a ‘shoot-to-kill’ order to the police in the Kerio Valley conundrum where no law grants one such power.