Health CAS Rashid Aman (centre) receives a donation of Covid-19 diagnostic test kits from the Japanese ambassador to Kenya Horie Ryoichi on August 27, 2020.
The president makes many promises to support the vulnerable but most of that is not honoured.
The government says it is looking out for businesses but all they do is is take money out of the pockets of small business owners by inflating test prices.
Politicians impose restrictions and rules they do not abide by.
We’ve been in the throes of Covid-19 since March 13. Ish, no one is really keeping track anymore in what feels like a long night that has gone on too long. We’ve slipped into that phase where really, regardless of what the president says, there is still no vaccine, and so life can never really go back to normal. Not this year, anyway. Not for a while.
And yet, somehow, the Kenyan government claims to continue to protect its citizens against this global scourge. Do you feel protected? I certainly don’t. The government made a host of promises at the beginning of this pandemic, as it is wont to do – we will give out masks and sanitisers en masse, was one. Clearly their definition of en masse was in one highly publicised distribution that ended in a stampede and television time. We are doing everything we can to combat this disease and help the citizenry! Everything except have enough tests, provide organised quarantine, give clear regulations, put the police in check, listen to our pleas about police brutality, keep the airports closed down, direct landlords to ease the rent burden, reduce fuel prices…even reducing fuel prices, they could not do, and when they did it, it was a mistake that they quickly remedied the next month.
