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Stop playing games with the issue of IDPs

With just 48 days to the August date with voters, there is yet to emerge serious ideological contests to excite Kenyans. Voters themselves are so lethargic from running around chasing the cheap, subsidised and instantly vapourised maize flour the Government promised that they are in a state of funk, unable to think straight and hold their leaders, nay, tormentors, to account for the miscarriages of the last five years.

After so many false starts and promises, it is now said (I am not convinced) that several tonnes of maize, 690 metric tonnes to be precise, have arrived in the country and, perhaps, hungry Kenyans will not have to engage in fisticuffs in the supermarkets while scrambling to buy just one 2kg packet of maize flour.

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