Disarmament a hard but honourable act, we must all support it

Deputy President William Ruto during a past disarmament exercise in Turkana in 2015. [File, Standard]

Every year the world spends up to $2 trillion on weapons that are primarily designed to maim and kill.

We live in a very dangerous world and it is getting easier all the time to access these weapons of destruction. Kenya’s military spending in 2018 was Sh109.7 billion and the 2019/20 budget almost certainly increased expenditure.