EGO TOO HEALTHY

The huge ego of politicians, especially MPs, is simply legendary, as confirmed by Simiyu Barasa, who says he has always noted that whenever they sign the visitors’ books in schools or public offices, they often scrawl their signs across a whole blank page “so that their names can stand out from the rest”. He adds: “There is no good reason why they can’t sign in the spaces provided. Isn’t this symptomatic of their tendency to want to grab everything for themselves, including forests?”