Inside the life of a first-family child

President William Ruto's children. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

It is tough being a regular child but being a president's child must be a couple of times harder. Although Kenya's presidents' children are no longer young, we take a look at the perks and downsides of being one.

Most presidential families have tried to keep their children private and protected from the public eye as much as possible. Former US President Barack Obama, for example, often talked about her then-teenage daughters but they were mostly shielded from public life.