Forget Murkomen, we owe Uhuru and Raila a huge debt of gratitude

President Uhuru Kenyatta shake hands with ODM leader Raila Odinga during the National Prayer Breakfast at the Safari Park Hotel on May 31, 2018. [File, Standard]

In his famous wartime speech, former British Prime Minister and statesman Winston Churchill made reference to a cold reality that obtained at the time.

Emerging from a bunker on August 16, 1940 in the thick of the Battle of Britain, he looked at General Hastings Ismay in the eye, paused for minutes and remarked: “Never in the history of mankind has so much been owed by so many to so few.”