It takes bold actions to break through inertia in public life

We are stuck with the same type of politics and politicians which we know from experience will not deliver to us the Kenya we want. What we are seeing is a game of musical chairs sat on by same recycled players who lack the vision to inspire Kenyans to a better future. Those bold, aggressive and radical words didn’t come from seasoned activists or political commentators, but from the country’s Catholic Bishops.

In a statement that revealed their desperation with the government’s abysmal failure to reign in graft, the clerics stated, ‘Your inaction is breeding anger among the people’. The Bishops stopped short of calling for a revolt but the message delivered is that this government has failed Kenyans on every front, and we need change in leadership urgently, ‘Corruption and corrupt people have become immune to all measures and continue to slide the country into a bottomless abyss of hopelessness, poverty and despair.’