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Former President Mwai Kibaki during the promulgation of the 2010 constitution. [File, Standard]
Politics, a cardinal human activity around which people organise, is not for the soft-hearted. Participants need to have tough skins to withstand barbs thrown at them and be ready for routine accusations and allegations that border on insanity.
They should also have enough guile to return favours to their tormentors. The person doing it becomes “naked” for all to see. In Kenya, political posturing hovers around personalised constitutional engineering to favour special interests.
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