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Let them plan for 2022 hoping God does not have different ideas

As we toy with the question of who may likely succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta when his term lapses in 2022, there are factors we must keep in mind no matter how far his retirement looks on the calendar.

As we do so, let us take cognizant of unpredictable political realities around this "taboo" subject for as we saw under the 1970’s change-the-Constitution crusade, it may not be against the law but then it isn’t politically correct to imagine other reasons that may get a Kenyan leader out of the way.

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