THE VICIOUS CYCLE OF KENYAN POLITICS THAT KEEPS CITIZENS POOR.

By Sebastian Karani, DMCP Kenyan politics is a well-choreographed circus, with the same actors switching roles every election season. Todayās government is tomorrowās opposition, and the policies they once championed become the very ones they fight against. The irony? When the dust settles, it is the ordinary mwananchi left to suffer, struggling under broken promises, bad policies, and economic hardship. Take the sugar industry, for example. Before the 2022 elections, the Uhuru Kenyatta government commissioned a task force to investigate the failures of state-owned sugar factories. The findings were simple: government is terrible at business. The only way to revive struggling factories like Nzoia, Mumias, Chemelil, and Sony was to lease them out or privatize them. At the time, Western Kenya leaders allied with Raila Odinga, who was in the Handshake government, agreed with the plan but warned against its timing. They feared that if leasing was done before elections, the Hust...