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Uhuru should talk to this taxi driver

Granted, there must be very good reasons why Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta was sitting on the millions meant for civic education by the Committee of Experts until the Prime Minister intervened. He was not playing politics.

Matters of government are intricate and top secret — siri kali as his father, old Jomo, would say. That being the case, chances that Uhuru will explain why the money taps had been turned off on civic education are remote at the very least. Still, the man might wish to hear what a taxi driver told this writer last week.

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