Changing tack of opposition sends Ruto, allies to the drawing board

Anti-Finace Bill protesters in Nairobi. The new opposition is devoid of political heavyweights the country has been accustomed to for years. [File, Standard]

"The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost," those were the words of celebrated author JRR Tolkien in his masterpiece The Lord of the Rings.

The words, though a work of art, simmers into the country's current political atmosphere that is witnessing a rapid change in the composition of the opposition which has sent President William Ruto and his allies back to the drawing board.