“As a nation, we must confront the emergency of our failure to learn!” well circulated news clips showed veteran Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga saying, in reaction to the (lack of) preparedness despite accurate advance warnings of the floods that by the time he spoke had claimed some 200 lives in the country.
Baba, as Raila is popularly known, must have used the words “as a nation” advisedly for, at the time he was speaking, helicopters were evacuating (wealthy) foreigners from flooded sites as the Kenyan citizens continued drowning.
