A national reminder: Time to take stock of progress, gains in FGM war
President Uhuru Kenyatta, First Lady Margaret Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto during the official opening ceremony of the Nairobi Summit on International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25) at KICC in 2019.
President Kenyatta has made substantial, weighty and far-reaching pledges on the issue of gender equality and equity.
The civil society working in collaboration with the government, and the media, have gained much ground in combating FGM.
President Uhuru Kenyatta must be the most anxious political leader in Kenya at the moment. While those seeking to succeed him spend sleepless nights planning and strategising on how to out-manoeuvre their rivals to clinch the country’s top seat, the President is seemingly working round the clock to secure his legacy.
A positive legacy is, clearly, his top priority — never mind his desire to give direction on his preferred successor. This may explain why he has, on numerous occasions, taken to inspecting the key projects said to be ‘close to his heart’, even at night.
