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2025: Will political sycophancy derail Kenya's pursuit of economic reform?

The National Dialogue Committee co-chair , National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah at a session  during the Kenya Kwanza Alliance and Azimio la Umoja coalition Bipartisan talks at Bomas of Kenya ,Nairobi on 31st October 2023 [David Gichuru,Standard]

As we step into the hopeful embrace of 2025, let’s randomly walk through a couple of unusual reflections for the year. 

We start with two recent observations. The first, obvious one is the current surge of self-righteous anger from our political leaders. These figures seem intent on both threatening and chastising young people, all the while scaling moral high grounds to sanctimoniously advise them on how to behave better.

This scenario is as shabby as it gets in terms of new year beginnings. The result is that Gen Z may quickly transform into Gen Zote at...