Our welfare is inevitably wedded to our choice of national leaders

Kiambaa residents queue to vote at Karuri Primary School. [George Njunge, Standard]

This week has witnessed heightened political jostling for the next tenant of the House on the Hill. As expected, the men who think they deserve the seat of power were holed up in cozy boardrooms, exclusive lodges, and/or premier residential addresses to share out the ‘nation’. The hoi polloi do not matter–after all, they can always be herded like sheep for slaughter.