Kenya can get good leaders if we embrace political newcomers

Agents at a polling station in Kayole, Embakasi Central, Nairobi. [File, Standard]

George Bernard Shaw, an Irish Nobel Prize winner and socialist, believed, "Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." Anchoring on Shaw's proposition, I ask, is a country that is crying for a change of guard in politics elect someone they call a moral cop, and if they do, is there hope of them making things better?

Today's debate is more momentous than Ezekiel Mutua. I am picking on him as a microcosm of a person that the majority of Kenyans consider a 'moral cop' to represent hundreds of others who are considered model leaders.