Is this the best time to gain political mileage?

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe addresses the media at Afya House in Nairobi during the ministry’s daily updates on the coronavirus. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Something stinks like a fish that’s rotting from its head. We’re supposed to be in the grip of a global pandemic but somehow there’s still time to play politics; to plan for an election that’s two years away amid the chaotic response to a virus that could kill many of us right now.