I know this line of thinking may unsettle many. Still, it would be intellectually dishonest of me, as a public thinker, to use this column solely to set an agenda of consistently vilifying the current regime. You may ask: Is shooting and killing citizens the right path? What about overtaxing Kenyans? What about the entrenched systemic corruption? What about the misuse of public funds and the indifference we are experiencing under Kenya Kwanza leadership? Right path ango'wa? Right path ni wewe! Amidst all these voices, let us reason together.

By the time his first term was ending in 2007, Mwai Kibaki was not a celebrated man. His first term had been punctuated, or so we were made to believe, by grand corruption, extrajudicial killings, and a political atmosphere so suffocating that his re-election, and the reality that he would be president for another five years, sparked one of the darkest chapters in our nation's history. Yet today, Mr Kibaki is remembered as the architect of Kenya's economic rebirth-one of its kind since independence.