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Why Kimaiyo and Lenku must go home now

One of our biggest challenges is that we are a myopic nation. A couple of weeks ago dozens of policemen died in a botched operation in Turkana.

There was outrage for a hot second. Then we went back to worrying about the usual inane things. This was not the first time police commanders have sent our officers to the slaughterhouse in ill-planned operations. It is also not the first time something as tragic as this happened, and no one took responsibility.

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