In the words of an American president remarkable for his language, to claim so is to “pass the buck”. To say so – as an American president had put it – was to “pass the buck”. To “pass the buck”, then, is to commit the crime of shifting responsibility from yourself to somebody else or to some other authority. In a two-decked banner, it screamed: “Highways and urban streets bear brunt of impunity in Central”. In the words of an American president remarkable for his language, to claim so is to “pass the buck”.

Source: Daily Nation January 27, 2017 19:07 UTC