Consequences of electoral choice starting to bite?

The Government's look-East policy has had its fair share of negative effects on a country that has, since independence, shared its socio-political and economic ties with the West, notably the US and Britain.

In the run-up to the 2013 elections, Johnny Carson, the US assistant Secretary of State warned Kenyans that their political choices would come with consequences, in reference to the ICC cases against President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto.