Bursting the myth of Kenyan exceptionalism

The second irony is that some of the most important reforms facing us in the coming few years may not actually be the grand ones defined by abstractions.

Fixing and dignifying the police force is critical. The elite has misused and robbed from the police for decades now and we are paying a heavy price. 

Even more troubling has been the discovery in private hands of over 132,000 rounds of 7.62 millimetre ammunition — weighing all of four tonnes — in the Narok area between December and early this month.

Add to this an assortment of military supplies that would imply internal expeditionary use and the questions multiply.

I’m a steadfast believer in Kenyan exceptionalism, in that sense of hurt we feel when our neighbours tell us “pole sana.”
We will have to use it to see us through the coming tragicomedy.