The Equator has moved, but spirit of Safari Rally lingers on in Rumuruti

Subaru Leone's Karangatha came first to win the Sikh Union club's safari rally training program held at the Stoni Athi Resort in Machakos county. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

A much-awaited family trip finally materialised last week, venturing into the Rift Valley and crossing the Equator, to Nanyuki, even as some folks in Meru bickered where the invisible line cuts through. See, we fight not just about electoral outcomes, but also about scientific facts.

And so, the team of surveyors (or whatever you call specialists who do that sort of work), and for reasons only known to themselves, apparently marked the "wrong" spot as the abode of the imaginary line that cuts the North and South poles into two.