The second, more public, one was Thursday’s State of the Nation address by President William Ruto. The forum offered a discourse on the cost of living, focusing on government interventions to address food (and food imports) as a major cost driver. That this statement came after the address suggests that President Ruto may be missing the point. No amount of fine words, regardless of style, will address the real substance of the everyday Kenyan’s concerns. It’s taken President Ruto 422 days to say what late President Kibaki said on Day One.

Source: Daily Nation November 12, 2023 20:12 UTC