Ruto's steady hands steering Kenya toward progress, stability

President William Ruto. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The new year ushers for us both at personal and at the national level, the age of responsibility. The year of the Lord 2024 should make us take a mental flight to a time like this 20 years ago when politics won and the nation suffered at a place called Bomas.

For those who may not know, the year 2004 was a year of great promise both in terms of political, constitutional and institutional reforms. But brain dead politics that was blind to posterity stopped us from seizing the moment. Had we held ourselves to higher ideals we would not have witnessed the danse macabre that was the 2007 post-poll violence.