Now they are politicising the poor jigger

It was clearly the picture of the week – Jimmy Kibaki, he of Simama Kenya, moving stoically forward to wash dirty, jigger infested feet somewhere in central Kenya.

It was a brave thing. Unwashed jigger-infested feet are not gentle to the eye — or to the nose — and it takes a very brave soul to touch them, leave alone wash them, gloved hands notwithstanding. It’s especially remarkable when the said person lacks any intimate knowledge of jiggers, having probably only met the nasty parasites in a little science textbook in primary school.