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Road to Singapore: Ruto's wheelbarrow gains wings to fly

President William Ruto during a fund drive in aid of a women's group and boda boda sacco in Mathira, Nyeri County.  [File, Standard]

Folks, greetings from a wintry London. I’m here to benchmark what a so-called “First World” looks like, now that Prezzo Bill Ruto has unveiled a plan that he purports will transform fortunes of our nation by miraculously building, in two years, the sort of infrastructure we couldn’t achieve in 62 years. And since he thinks he’s better than his four predecessors put together, who are we to doubt him?

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