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.

"I will vote ‘No’ because these people (he didn’t say who) are endangering our country. A constitution is supposed to be a very secret thing that only a few people in government know. Now they have put it in newspapers, on the Internet, even on radio. Everyone knows our secret and our enemies can use this to finish this country."

Here is a chap who thinks the constitution belongs in a bank vault operated by a few government operatives — not him. It will be a tall order educating him.