Look beyond degrees to provide Kenyans leadership

NAIROBI: In the quest to raise the calibre of leadership in Kenya, there have been proposals to set the academic bar higher. The premise is that a highly educated person has the ability to think issues through and can, where necessary, exercise restraint.

Too often in the past, we saw, and especially among the cadre of leaders who were referred to as councillors; now Members of County Assembly, fisticuffs when articulating issues coherently became too much of a handicap.