Government projects need vision, not hype

In a speech at St Paul’s University recently, Prof PLO Lumumba warned about an emerging political phenomenon he called ‘Sonkonisation,’ which is exemplified in the person of the flamboyant Nairobi Senator, Mike Sonko.

Sonkonisation of society, Lumumba says, is a practice where politicians or individuals accumulate wealth in an unclear manner and use the money with abandon to influence politics. But even as Lumumba decried the sonkonisation of Kenya, he might not have realised that the State is in itself fast being ‘sonkonised’ under the Jubilee administration.