Lavish treats for VIPs have gone off the mark

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua (in shades) captured in a Kenya Airforce jet as he travelled to Kisumu for the National School Music Festivals. [Courtesy]

There's a fallacious feeling about political power in the African continent where a shoeless herder in tattered pants brags that his tribe is in power.

In the minds of the masses, it's somehow okay to be famished inside shanties - ravaged by jiggers - as long as your 'man' has State power, cash and galactic influence.