Exit Obama, it's back to business as usual

Just after US President Barack Obama took off in his Air Force One, a colleague told us: "From now on security begins with you!" He may have sounded like one of those stubborn pessimists Kenya is so generously endowed with, but then let us reflect on how fast we found our old foothold back.

In the evening, we saw TV cameras beam the return of street families, especially the scary boys who can skin a human being alive without flinching, to their usual hoods. Where they had been taken by security chiefs still baffles many, but one wonders: if they could keep and feed them there, why not make it a new way of life for the street families?