Government should start initiatives that help and give people hope

The role of true leadership is to inspire genuine hope with realistic plans for a better tomorrow. [File, Standard]

Going into politics gives you absolute clarity of the reality on what is happening in ‘mashinani’, which literally means at the grassroots of our country.

Many people who read this newspaper have no idea of what is really happening in our cities today because they have never visited and seen what the slums and underbellies of our cities hold. There are large areas of Mombasa and Nairobi that you wouldn’t recognise or believe are in a city.