Let politicians touch hearts through ideas, not by spewing hate

The political recklessness that we witnessed this past week could easily set the nation on fire. The very unbecoming utterances by Johanna Ng’eno, the Emurua Dikirr MP, and his Kapseret counterpart Oscar Sudi not only took the nation by surprise, but also stirred serious negative emotions.

The attack on President Uhuru Kenyatta, and especially on his mother and late father, was not only crude, but totally uncalled for. Irrespective of what any of us may think or feel about the president, he remains the Head of State and deserves the respect due to him by dint of that office. It is no wonder that the attacks immediately drew the ire of many Kenyans from across the political divide.