A dose of empathy is all that our leaders need

ODM leader Raila Odinga during a luncheon for the disadvantaged children at PCEA Kangoya Child Development Centre in Kiambu County. [Courtesy]

I was at a pub last week waiting for a friend. He was late and I was refreshing my social media pages obsessively, y’know, instead of twiddling my thumbs. Shortly, a waitress came by. She was a slip of a thing, not very tall, and enviously slender.

She was also pregnant. If I had to guess, I would say she was probably about seven or eight months along, and she couldn’t have been more than 25.