Every Kenyan joins politics with a burning desire for change. In the end, it is politics that changes them – and, often, not for the better.
Like many corporate executives whose professionalism is forged in years spent occupying the coveted corner offices of some blue-chip companies, Mwangi wa Iria joined entered politics with what appeared to be an almost evangelistic mission of transforming lives even as he thought he would help cleanse a system poisoned by corruption and ineptitude.