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Parliament can't be a watchdog if clueless on policy

The Senate during a previous session. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Perhaps it is time President William Ruto organised regular policy seminars for his lieutenants in Kenya Kwanza.

Since publication of the Finance Bill and its raft of taxing proposals, the president's men and women have struggled to provide a coherent message on what the government intends to do with our taxes.

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