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HERE'S WHY JUBILEE MUST BOW TO RAILA'S WISHES

When you read about countries such as Brazil and Russia, you realize how important Raila Odinga is to the country and East Africa. Kenya is in a worse off state than these countries were before their markets collapsed.

Given the current 55% of public debt to GDP, $7 billion foreign reserves (only 4.7 months import cover), chronic government spending, 9.3% budget deficit (although the Treasury keeps insisting it's 6.9%) and we have no unique on-demand substantial export. It is just a matter of time for someone/something to trigger an economic crisis. 

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