Just what does the Raila swearing in hope to achieve?

NASA Principal Raila Odinga holds the bible to demonstrate his swearing in during NASA's rally at Changamwe in Mombasa County on Sunday 21st January 2018. [Photo/Kelvin Karani]

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”

The words of Englishman Bertrand Arthur William Russel (1872-1970) in his book New Hopes for a Changing World, published some five decades ago, ring true today as they did then.