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Some lovers cannot round off a lie

BY John Kariuki

As a keen observer and an eavesdropper, I know that Valentine’s day has taken a near-national holiday prominence in Kenya. So the love bug will hit many people today as surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. But we are likely to see more of the rough adoration that is carried out without finesse or forethought.

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