With only some few months left to 2017 General Election, as usual and as expected promises-which only God knows when they will be fulfilled-have started to stream in.
As a popular local TV talk show host would put it, they are coming in 'thick and fast' or 'fast and furious'.
Just some fews days ago President Uhuru Kenyatta announced a Sh1 billion 'grant', to miraa farmers in Meru to mitigate the impact of miraa ban in the United Kingdom some few years ago.
In Thika, where miraa is chewed with brutal loyalty perhaps to tell-off our former colonisers for banning what we otherwise treat as a crop and not a drug, the 'grant' is being taken with a pinch of salt.
Miraa for your information has been very critical in Thika in as far as football betting is concerned. You will find many youths who have come to believe that betting can earn them a living seriously analyzing football in 'muguka bases'.
Football betting companies maybe should consider sponsoring miraa in this area. It is some of these youths, of course educated, jobless and hopeless who thinks Uhuru's offer was just another publicity stunt, as critics like putting it, aimed on 2017.
"The price of miraa here wonna not come down because of that 'grant'. I just wish Uhuru could spend the billion shillings negotiating with the UK government to lift the ban," Tony Muchui, a Thika resident from Meru said on Sunday.
John Mugambi, a miraa seller from Meru wonders how the money will be shared among the miraa growers.
"I don't see a point where we will review miraa prices downwards because of the deal. Miraa farmers have no cooperatives or Saccos through which such money can be distributed," he said.
That said, only time will tell the impact the Sh1 billion will have on miraa chewing in Thika and elsewhere. Who knows, the benefit might be passed forward to the chewers and perhaps be given a chewing holiday of at least a day. Sh1 billion is no joke!