Uhuru, Raila unity shouldn’t blind us from task ahead

With two weeks to the end of an eventful 2018, a few home truths may have to be digested. It’s been quite a rough path for ordinary Kenyans who became cannon fodder in a system that refused to inspire hope. Too many battles were fought in the year.

While we won some, tried our best in others and failed in most, Kenyans’ faith in their leaders waned and the love for the republic lurched. From two sham elections last year and the extra-judicial killings that followed, plunder of funds, the senseless clashes in some regions and the debt spree to tribalism, the script has been all too familiar. Then there was the fuel tax saga that skinned the poor alive.