A well-thought-out political agenda-setting remains a national priority as we cruise through the last quarter of 2024. The street protests of 2023 and the attendant loss of lives were an indictment of our electoral system and our political institutions for their failure to guarantee elections so credible that, to use the words of Prof PLO Lumumba, the man on the Pangani bus would go home saying 'we lost fairly'. In law, we call it the standard of a reasonable man. That elections have been source of massive political acrimony should incentivise us to properly diagnose the root cause of the problem and deal with it decisively.