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We’re often a collateral damage in other people’s power games

My MP is disgusted. Nelson Koech of Belgut told the Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary that her answers were sickening and painful to listen to.

The Cabinet Secretary was before a parliamentary committee to explain why 279 potentially ‘coronavirus infected’ people were allowed into the country. Perhaps what Koech found nauseating was that CS Rachel Omamo and others in charge seem unable to connect their negligence to their own, personal potential doom. 

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