On facebook no one accepts my friend requests simply because of my name. Does anyone here care about my opinion or will you also shun this 'Nyoka' person?
In my view, Kenya is a free country. You can do whatever you want as long as your freedom does not infringe on the freedoms of others. So, Raila had and still has the freedom to hold as many press conferences as he wants whether they are self-promoting or not.
It is obvious that the payment of taxes has become a PR 'gimmick' as someone here said but still does that make it illegal to say you have paid taxes?
Then there is the issue of leading by example. Leaders should be at the forefront of showing society how things should be done though in this particular case we are not sure who paid first.
If Kibaki actually paid first, then it is good, though he should have come out and declared this to give a good example to each and every other Kenyan.
Nursery children are very impressionable and if he had declared it, they would have been singing nursery rhymes about it for the next 50 years or so.