I was wrong. I am sorry.

I was wrong and I repent. Kingwa Kamencu should not be allowed anywhere near the reins of power. Youth is wasted on the young. Those words have never been truer. A year or so since she decided to throw her weave into the ring, Ms Kamencu is squandering whatever goodwill she may have enjoyed after her emotional declaration of her intent to stand for the presidency at the next general election. She is fast turning herself into a punchline. The final straw came when she declared that she supports "An Underwear Free Africa" because "the idea is to return to traditional African values."

The problems bedeviling Kenya today have very little to do with our having abandoned our African values; there are plenty of African values being applied today, from female genital mutilation to child marriages, from polygamy to concubinage. There are a few modern African values that we have perfected such as nepotism, tribalism, sexism, and ethnic-inspired violence. Genocide is fast becoming an African value, especially when we decide that the people from the "wrong" community can be dealt with simply by removing them permanently from the political scene. It is African these days to simply ignore any and all rules, whether they come in the form of legislation or they are in the form of social mores. It is time Ms Kamencu opened her eyes and realised that her campaigned has stalled and it will not be revived by sloganeering of the undergarment kind.

I was wrong. I am sorry. I will think twice before endorsing another political neophyte again.