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The last one week has been one of the most riveting in the recent political history of our country. A week ago today, I made some comments which I genuinely believe were largely misinterpreted and twisted by the large, yet uncontrolled social media. While I believe the gist of what I said was lost in the pathetic translation from Kikuyu language, the ‘take home’ lesson from this difficult week is far from that.
The conditions at Pangani Police Station where I was held for days with my five other colleagues may not be your pick choice for a holiday destination, but the bigger pain that I now face is how we have managed to consistently lose endless opportunities to talk to each other as a nation. I feel that as a people, we have allowed otherwise manageable issues to build up and blossom into full grown ‘crisis’.
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