Petty political brawls masking real issues

Women leaders address the media at Serena Hotel in Nairobi. They condemned utterance directed at the First Family by Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi and his Emurua Dikir counterpart Johana Ng'eno. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

Forestry and Environment CS Keriako Tobiko’s growing pugnacity has reached new levels. Presumably emboldened by his threat to release wild animals to private homes in Lang’ata, Nairobi, he has now taken the fight further up the pecking order: to none less than the deputy president himself. He has called the DP “a clerk to the president” and “an assistant to the president just like the rest of the CSs”.