I know nothing in the theory which insists that the government and the opposition must take positions in rigid opposition to each other and cannot co-operate. This opposition for opposition’s sake is among the factors that stand so solidly in the Third World’s path to creating both ideas and wealth. Yet recent newspaper headlines suggest that both sides are beginning to draw absolutely rigid lines between themselves. Contrariwise, a voice of intolerance to all opposition is beginning to be heard from the corridors of power. That, I suggest, is why the government and the opposition should consider themselves merely as two sides of the same coin through which this country can rise rapidly to the club of top economies and democracies.

Source: Daily Nation November 26, 2016 19:46 UTC