In Kenya, there are no parties but five-year power sharing formations

Mwai Kibaki.

The speed at which Mwai Kibaki was sworn in a decade and a half ago was indeed amazing. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA

The average man on the streets of Kampala knows all he wants to know about Kenya’s recently departed retired president Mwai Kibaki; that he was sworn in a hurry for his second and final term.

A simile about doing things in a hurry was created in Kampala arising from that presidential inauguration ceremony that took place in State House Nairobi before the returning officer even got to know the results that he was going to announce.