Ditch the tribal card, Mr Duale, it won't work this time around

Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale during the inauguration of the benefits package and tarrifs advisory panel at Afya House, Nairobi, on May 26, 2025. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

When Moses Kuria, a former CS in the Kenya Kwanza government and until recently a presidential adviser, warns that the administration has embarked on an anti-Kikuyu campaign, we must pause and listen carefully. In recent weeks, we have heard reckless statements from leaders like William Kamket, Jackson Mandago, and Aden Duale, all suggesting that a certain community considers itself superior, a deliberate attempt to resuscitate the ghosts of negative ethnicity as a political strategy.