Reform pledges must be taken with a pinch of salt

By Billow Kerrow

You can call it peer jealousy, or it is simply reforms rhetoric of the Kenyan kind. The G7 team has mounted all its guns on Raila Odinga’s reform campaign platform. His two horse race analogy, of the horse of reforms vs the horse of status quo and impunity, has drawn unusually sharp criticisms from all the other presidential hopefuls, long united as his foe. But his former aide Miguna Miguna’s book serialisation could not have come at a worse time for the ‘enigmatic’ man in Kenya’s politics.