Why Kenya is teetering on the brink of a full-blown economic crisis

Graph showing a business decline. [Getty Images]

You know you are staring into a major economic crisis when your leaders can’t feign a feeling of helplessness.

“Instead of leaders sitting down and trying to find solutions, others are going out there to incite the wananchi ‘prices have gone up, ask Uhuru.’ I, Uhuru, am I in Ukraine… what would I be doing there?” said President Uhuru Kenyatta in a speech on Labour Day on May 1.