Girls, too, have a fair shot at leadership given chance

Day of the African Child came and went, but the helicopter tragedy that claimed Internal Minister George Saitoti and his Assistant Minister Orwa Ojode was the arena in which one last, but very powerful word was put forth in defence of not just the African child, but all children.

True to character and legacy he left, former President Daniel Moi had counsel for all gathered at Prof Saitoti’s final send-off. For a man credited with establishing hundreds of girls’ schools during the Nyayo years, he urged people of the larger Kajiado, Samburu and Narok districts to continue the late minister’s efforts to educate the Girl Child. And who in his right mind finds wife material in a 12-year-old?