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If this election is about cost of living, which coalition wins it?

Kenyans on a long queue during the 2017 General Election. [File, Standard]

The logic of choice in life assumes that there are options. It also assumes freedom to choose. Choice itself rides in the same cabin with conscience. Freedom of choice and freedom of conscience, accordingly, are identical twins.

Those who choose know why they do so. They know the consequences and are ready to live with them. The mother of all choices is the election of a leader, or leaders. 

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