poor bright kid...surely you must have tracked even one such kid all through, yes? Then you can point to evidence that he was poor yet has managed to compete successfully against the rich because of fre.

People are really funny, you wait for three or so years and people from Gatanga where Peter Kenneth comes from will be all praise. Somewhere else where CDF money was misused, some very people will vote in the same fellows because he will have come over with some packets of Unga. They will wait for 5 more years and continue complaining. Then some people somewhere will start saying ati the current president has done nothing for their people and their area has been neglected.
Everything starts from the local level, today most people may argue that central is more developed than say Nyanza, most of the development happened during Moi’s regime not because Moi liked Central but because of central leaders themselves. An area that has electricity today is because there is a tea or a coffee factory nearby and people neighboring the factories had to pay to get connected to the grid.
Kibaki might have done something; say around 85 % but most Kenyans were expecting a 100% president.
Am waiting to see what will happen now that there will be county governments, come five years people will be looking for someone to blame.

Just wondering , I visited a place in Muranga between Kiriaini and Othaya where they have mukurwe wa nyagathanga, the road there is not that good but I found almost all homes there are “stone “ built despite not being that big. I think 9 in every 10 homes are “nyumba za mawe” not like those we see in Budalangi (no offence). What went on here?

I shall honorably excuse your misdemeanor on lack of travel, fact, coupled with a lot of ignorance by choice, and to a large extent the kind of talk that went around at your dinner table as you grew up.

Id written a longer rejoinder but cooled of in the process thus im content with the first paragraph..

You don't get it,

Couldnt have said it better