Kenyans must take charge of their future in the New Year

Eldoret residents celebrate as they usher in the New year. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

In under a week, the annus horribilis of 2020 will be gone, and Kenyans will be hoping that in 2021, they will sleep hungry fewer times. Actually, they are hoping few of them will die due to poor or lack of healthcare services; that their children will be in public schools that are not a health hazard and mainly that the thieves they elected will stop stealing their taxes or giving them to their cronies and relatives through skewed tendering.

As usual, Kenyans live on hope, and keep hoping, all the time against hope, because they keep shooting themselves in the foot, then forget that they were holding the weapon themselves.