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Braggadocio is what you term Miguna’s performance this past week. And man did he play to and get the public gallery hanging on to his every word. Quiet dignity is what you sense when former president Jerry Rawlings cautions Kenyan voters to be more discerning before they leap.

No nonsense is what comes to mind when you hear: “There’s absolutely no place for jokes that could be perceived as a threat to the First Lady or anybody else... That’s not funny,” Washington DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier said of threats to Michelle Obama. And resolute confidence screams from Martha Karua when she told the Diaspora voters she will retire in the “unlikely event” she is not elected president. Wow!

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