The past nine months have felt like a national “twilight zone” from which we refuse to emerge. The first quarter of 2018 is over in a flash of “stop-start” events highlighted this week by the goings-on at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) amid growing fears of a “recession” from democracy to dictatorship.
Let’s hope not, and return once again to the “handshake”. The communiqué refers to nine burning issues to which President Uhuru Kenyatta and “People’s President” Raila Odinga committed.