How Gen Z protests exposed Kenya's perennial trust problem

The scepticism that greeted President Ruto's announcement that he would not sign the Finance Bill, spoke volumes about the immense trust deficit in our country. Indeed, many of the Gen Zs still do not believe that the Finance Bill 2024 is truly dead even after the president sent it back to Parliament with a memorandum calling for the deletion of all clauses.

This yawning gap between the government and the governed has defined the history of our nation since the colonial...