Men and women are tested in their darkest hour. That's when their true grit - or lack thereof - is revealed. Our true character is on display in times of ordeal. That's when your mortality looks you in the face and calls your bluff. This is the question - will you shrink, like a coward, or rise, like a hero? A real general runs to a fight, not away from it. Otherwise your troops will break and run at the sight of a chickening commander.
Then the troops are scattered to the four winds and slaughtered by the enemy. Methinks DP William Ruto - unlike his namesake Koitalel arap Samoei, the valiant anti-colonial Nandi nationalist - is all hat and no cattle.
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