Isaac Chepketer

Ramadan Kareem, may Allah accept your prayers and fasting.

Seeing H.E. Rigathi Gachagua, EGH question William Samoei Ruto over access to safe water may sound bold, but the roots of this inequality go back to Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965, when development was deliberately skewed toward “high-potential areas,” leaving ASAL regions behind.

Today, fewer than 35% in Northern Kenya have safe water compared to a national average of about 68%. That gap is painful and unacceptable — but it is the result of decades of structural neglect, not a three-year chapter.

Let’s have the conversation — but let’s have it with historical honesty, not political convenience.

Mavi ya kale hayanuki.