Your analysis is understandable under the current politicians driven politics. What Raila is doing is empowering the people and letting them take over. Once the people are fully empowered, no politician will dare get off the line. We will teach the people how to demonstrate peacefully, graciously and with humility, like they do in the West and then more people will come to the streets including people with jobs, businessmen and women, middle class and people will even bring children. Time is on our side.
Like I'd mentioned before, NASA governors now fearing their looting will be affected:
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/11/04/nasa-governors-misgivings-with-raila-game-plan_c1663914
Expect Senators , MPs and MCAs to start having silent misgivings also.
I wonder how the poor can be said to be empowered when there is, as far as I can tell, not a single meaningful step being taken by both coalitions to provide a conducive economic environment for said empowerment.
Not trying to be cynical, just wondering out aloud.
Cynically wondering aloud. I note that the anti-competitive environment driven by Safcom is being dismantled right before our eyes. Strive would have an interesting story to tell about his YU network and what happened when he tried to venture into the market.
The rise of politically connected monopolies in Kenya only hurts the people and further encourages injustice in various forms. i.e consumer rights, price fixing, electoral and even economic.
Turns out Airtel have better offerings and the people are discovering this.