One year ago today, a nation stood up and demanded to be heard.
The elite, safe in the cocoon of wealth and privilege, lamentably misread the situation.
If any evidence was needed that the people were fed up with politicians’ arrogance, the Gen Z, on June 25, put all doubt to rest.
The reckless brain-dead police sent out officers with shoot to kill orders.
As though the killings meant nothing, a new chapter of kidnappings, forced disappearances and murders followed because, in the warped estimation of the police and their political masters, fear and intimidation would stop calls for good governance.
Nobody can forget footage of the Gen Z, outside Parliament, wrapping the dead in the national flag and carrying the bodies away.
We hope that the police will show some semblance of common sense and even intelligence to make today peaceful above the brouhaha.
The killings and kidnappings must never happen
again.
President William Ruto might consider appointing a special youth envoy to conduct town-hall style meetings with the youth countrywide to have his pulse on the issues that require serious and urgent attention.
Quote of the day: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”—The English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic George Orwell was born on June 25, 1903
