Toast to a merry Christmas and hope for a better future

A series of road accidents that claimed more than 140 lives at the beginning of this month dampened the Christmas mood that had started building up among Kenyans, who had grown weary of intense political campaigns and machinations.

Between August 8, when Kenyans went to the polls in the normal five-year cycle to elect their leaders, and November 28, when President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in, there was palpable gloom across the country as the tension occasioned by acrimonious campaigns threatened the very foundations on which our nationhood stands.