Housing bribe: How home ownership dream has become 2027 poll campaign tool

Boma Yangu, new Mukuru housing estate. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

If you followed Oprah Winfrey, the popular American television show host, then you remember her marketing and endearing strategy of dishing out goodies, an act that left her audience squealing with excitement, like mice in a cheese factory.  

It is an art President William Ruto seems to have adopted of late, and perfected – at least where affordable housing is concerned – that anyone who attends his functions gets a house, or a promise of one.