There is little for Kenyans to celebrate under Kenya Kwanza government

President William Ruto chairs a Cabinet meeting. [File, Standard]

A deeply frayed social contract is always a sign of internal decay within a political order. Today, to say that Kenya is a home to broken dreams is to be extremely polite. But that state of affairs obtains for the simple reason that the demands of the present generation have outstripped existing political thinking and the attendant institutions. That is precisely why the Kenya Kwanza administration, while reveling in the afterglow of the electoral win, could afford the acts of impunity that it deployed against the people. Never in the history of this country has a government come into office and immediately turned its instruments of violence against the people it should defend. Not within the first year.