What Jubilee should prioritise to ensure peace and prosperity

Between winning a second term in a severely contested political environment and governing for the next five years, the latter may yet prove the more challenging engagement for the Jubilee duo. Only the most naive believe that last week's inauguration of the President put a rest to the leadership contestation that has defined Kenya for the last several months. The dynamics that informed what I still believe was an ill-advised boycott of the elections by NASA will continue to produce a thorn in the Jubilee administration.

Undoubtedly, the more extreme aspects of the political challenge; the ones that relate to political accommodation will be sorted out, most of it quietly, in due time. The holloi polloi who imagine a political settlement will necessarily involve issues dear to them will as usual be disappointed. Such is the nature of politics. I will therefore not waste too much ink on possible scenarios to resolve the political aspects of the stalemate. I however believe there are other more urgent priorities that address larger socio-economic concerns for a majority of the population that should be Jubilee’s primary focus.