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Embrace William Ruto's call to plant 15 billion trees

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President William Ruto plants a tree during the official opening of Devki steel Limited at Samburu in Kwale County. [Omondi Onyango,Standard]

The late President Mwai Kibaki once remarked: "Usishinde ukiuliza ni nini serikali imekufanyia, wewe jiulize unafanya nini kujisaidia mwenyewe na kusaidia serikali?'

He was asking Kenyans not to keep on asking what the government had done for them but rather ask what they were doing to support the government attain its mandate.

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