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MPs lost precious chance to demonstrate leadership

President Kibaki and other leaders’ failure to attend the launch of tree planting at the Mau Forest Complex was an embarrassment to Kenyans. What they considered viable excuses are unacceptable to Kenyans given the weight of the matter at hand.

Is it that they do not support the conservation drive? If so, perhaps, there are no better words to describe them but what Prime Minister Raila Odinga used on them: ‘enemies of the people of Kenya’.

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