President Uhuru Kenyatta’s runaway popularity sets him a new challenge that should motivate him to complete the numerous ambitious development programmes he has already launched.
It is already clear that by 2022, the first generation of children who receive a free laptop on joining Standard One will not yet be ready to be digitally tested in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examinations.
The roads network and port envisioned under the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) corridor project will just be getting completed. The standard gauge railway will have reached the border with Uganda, but the trains will still be on the way from China. The Great Security Wall between Kenya and Somalia will be a few kilometres short of reaching Mandera.
Delivery on these gargantuan projects cannot be left to chance, hence the need to prepare for a third term.
A third presidential term has become accepted as an African solution to an African problem. Out in Togo, President Faure Gnassingbe was recently re-elected again and President Yahya Jammeh is serving a third term in Gambia, bringing healing to people afflicted by pestilence and disease.
Nine countries in Africa have no provision for how long a leader can stay in power, while another 11 have successfully repealed term limits.
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