ODM's challenge is short-term and personal politics

ODM leaders at the Party's NEC Meeting at Pride Inn Hotel Mombasa. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

One of the key challenges facing Kenya is the fact that we have elites who are hopelessly unable to coordinate around a set of values, common national objectives, and a strategic understanding of our place in the world.

This problem gets worse when one considers that the same elites cannot coordinate around advancing their own interests. They lack mains running water and have to rely on boreholes. They have generators because they cannot get their act together in getting reliable grid power. They buy big cars because coordinating on good roads is beyond them. And they live a much lower quality of life than their peers elsewhere because they care not for aesthetics or cultural production.