Mount Kenya does not need regional kingpins anymore

Elders holding prayers at Club Heritage, Naivasha. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

As 2022 elections' talk starts dominating the headlines, a question on everyone's lips is: who will become the kingpin for the Mount Kenya region after President Uhuru Kenyatta exits the scene?

According to politicians from the region, the community urgently needs to identify an heir to Uhuru in order to avoid being marginalised in the next political dispensations. Since Kenyan politicians are notorious for advancing self-serving proposals, it is time for sober minds to deconstruct the merits of this suggestion.