Bedroom analogy good for our brand of politics

Dagoretti North MP Simba Arati addresses ODM supporters at DC Grounds, Kibra. [David Gichuru, Standard]

A bedroom is two things at once – a sanctuary where people can take refuge from this mad, mad world, and a sex chamber where people take refuge in each other. Bedrooms can be places of comfort, but at the same time are very often the scenes of violence.

It is in bedrooms that intimate relationships play out, some healthy, some toxic, and some even deadly. So you see, using the term ‘bedroom’ in the context of the Kibra by-election was apt.