Ruling party squandering goodwill by getting dictatorial

The unprecedented and prolonged media shutdown can only be viewed as a symptom of a regime with a super-thin skin. It has been interesting to observe the official response to a ‘swearing-in’ ceremony that many Jubilee devotees had roundly dismissed as a joke.

Despite the show of bravado by the Interior Cabinet secretary and others, the idea that one man could purport to instal himself as the ‘president of the people’ lodged itself in the throat of the ruling elite, causing it to sputter in rage, then explode in self-righteous indignation.