West will not save us from pandemic

The Group of 20 (G20) leaders’ pledge last month to inject $5 trillion (Sh525 trillion) in fiscal spending into the global economy to blunt the economic impact of the coronavirus may have silenced their domestic critics.

It, however, offered little or no comfort to developing countries such as Kenya. This is because no details were released on how they would achieve this Herculean task when they are busy putting out fires at home ignited by the fast-moving disease that has morphed into an economic global crisis.