Kenyans want leaders they can trust not genius

Members of the public perch up on the metals that support of a community water tank in Kibera to follow the proceedings of a political rally on June 05, 2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

There is nothing new under the sun. This scripture in Ecclesiastes 1:9 contains a powerful lesson for leaders. Virtually everything leaders promise has already been promised before. Even more telling, many of these promises have been implemented somewhere.

With the global climate change crisis, the power of leadership doesn’t lie in ability to make lofty promises but rather in keeping those promises. When leaders fail to keep their word, trust is shattered.