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Martha Karua has drawn a new line in the mountain

Martha Karua campaigns in Kiambu. [George Njunge, Standard]

This Sunday, let us glean some campaign lessons from Martha Karua’s playbook.

Lesson number one: Neutralise with words and pacify with reason. Karua’s encounters with hecklers in her Mt Kenya tour bring to mind a story about a burglar.

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