The government seems not to have picked up any lessons from last year's protests The mode of operation seems to be blunder after blunder without any brakes It was murder most foul, and the last thing that any limping government needs.

Kenya Kwanza is in a hole.

Ubiquitous calls of "Ruto must go!" and "One term" are the common coin of discourse everywhere, where two or three are gathered in social talk.

The regime, however, seems to be hard of hearing.  If the William Ruto regime ever needed to change tack and trade with social caution, the time is now.