The Man We Thought We Sent to Ichaweri

In the run up to the August 9 general election, rambunctious Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General, Francis Atwoli, made audacious guarantees that William Ruto would never be president, and that Uhuru Kenyatta was too young to retire to Ichaweri, the little village along Kenyatta Road in Gatundu South, Kiambu County, where President Kenyatta was born, and where his father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, had retreated to after his pre-independence release from house arrest in Maralal in 1961. Ichaweri was also where Jomo Kenyatta would commute to and from as president, daily. 

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The Parliamentary Oath of Office

The Oath of Office ceremony, which is officiated by the Clerks of the respective houses, was the key moment of the day as both MPs and the Speaker, once elected, had to subscribe to the oath.

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