A prayer for the nation: May thieves burn their stomachs

Judiciary staff during a prayer session. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

It appears we have lost any sense of discretion. Yesterday, we allowed images of chubby-cheeked men and women in fine robes to filter into our living rooms in a ritual known as the annual National Prayer Breakfast.

It doesn’t mean all Kenyans get to eat together; most Kenyans actually have pretty little to eat, thanks to a combination of natural and man-made calamities, from failed rains to the vagaries of a contracted or contracting economy, the ravages of Covid-19, Monkeypox, among others.