Madaraka Day snob of William Ruto is all what Kenyans could remember

Deputy President William Ruto walks past President Uhuru Kenyatta to make his remarks during National Prayer Day at Safari Park hotel in Nairobi on May 26, 2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The comportment of President Uhuru Kenyatta and First Lady Margaret Kenyatta, on the 59th Madaraka Day reminds us of Charles Dickens’s famous words in the classic Great Expectations. The 19th Century literary genius wrote, “In the little world in which children live, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.” 

People in power do well to know that we are all children. We remain children, no matter how old we live to be. Every extreme act, good or bad, wakes up the child in us. There has been a massive sense of injustice in the public spats between President Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto. They wake up the child.