Are some people in this country considered more human than others? When ordinary citizens are struggling with rising fuel prices, high taxation, collapsing purchasing power, and an unbearable cost of living, the political class remains heavily cushioned by public money. MPs continue receiving generous fuel allowances, car maintenance allocations, and multiple taxpayer-funded privileges while the same taxpayers financing those luxuries are being told to tighten their belts and endure economic hardship “for the sake of national stability.”
That contradiction is morally disturbing.
The ordinary Kenyan pays more for transport, food, electricity, and basic survival every single month, yet leaders insulated from that suffering continue operating within a protected economic bubble financed by the very people carrying the burden. Austerity is constantly prescribed to citizens but rarely practiced by the political elite themselves.
A serious government cannot continuously demand sacrifice from the public while preserving comfort at the top. Leadership should begin with shared hardship, not institutionalized privilege.
“A society begins to decay the moment leaders are protected from the suffering they impose on the people.”