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Palaver

Buzz around town now is Allan Root’s dalliance with good living, summed up in chopper flights for his two kids from Isiolo to Banda School in Nairobi. Not just that, his wife occasionally remains behind to take care of the family’s two puppies.

Nothing wrong there, it is his sweat, even the fact that he has another home in Nairobi. But why would he be allowed on Kenyan airspace with a chopper bearing similar camouflage colours like those of our military? It just must be true that some animals are more equal than others

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