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Uhurunomics: Jitters persist over Jubilee policies, ailing economy

Ruth Wanjiku at her grocery shop at Wakulima market, Nakuru County, on October 8, 2018. [File, Standard]

A common joke in economic circles is that almost everything good with economy went with former President Mwai Kibaki in 2013.

It is a joke until one begins to realise that the few economic goodies that lingered on for a year or two after the exit of Kenya’s third President frittered away one or two years into the Jubilee administration.

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