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Politicians sitting pretty as country faces grave issues

President Uhuru Kenyatta could feel rightly uplifted that his leadership is taking Kenya in the right direction, given the research findings released by Ipsos on Wednesday, which gave him high ratings.

Yet Mr Kenyatta left the country for Italy early this week to attend the Expo Milan 2015 Fair to promote Kenya's cultural and business opportunities on the day a strike by some 280,000 teachers pressing for a salary raise has paralysed the education system.

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