Age will soon be a painful number

They say age is nothing but a number, but try telling that to the Treasury mandarins on vehicle importation. I have a queasy feeling Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich is going to be a very unpopular chap among the newly employed upstarts.

Why? Because he proposes to make the acquisition of their first toy a more torturous journey. As my grandmother used to say, the only good thing that has seen better days is well matured green bananas.