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Mr President, clean the stables and no taskforces

President William Ruto signs the IEBC Bill into law at the KICC on July 9, 2024. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Committees, so said a wag, are a bunch of people, individually incapable of doing anything but who, as a group, can meet and decide nothing can be done.

They are also infamously credited with taking a perfectly good idea into an alley and strangulating it to death.

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